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Crook: I’m flee to go!

A man making a routine Queens court appearance on ID theft and gun charges yesterday bolted from the courtroom — and right out of the courthouse — when a judge announced Secret Service agents were there to arrest him for a Florida credit-card-fraud case.

The 27-year-old man raced out the front doors of the Queens courthouse before he was tackled on the top steps by court officers.

He was turned over to the Secret Service agents.

The case grew odder later in the day as federal authorities revealed that the man — who is being prosecuted in Queens court as David Bennett — goes by at least five other names.

Bennett was busted Aug. 1 outside a Woodside nightclub after a cop found an illegal gun in his car, as well as fake credit cards and IDs in the names of other people in his possession. He has been free on $20,000 bail.

Yesterday, in Queens court for a hearing on the case, Judge Barry Kron told Bennett there were two Secret Service agents in the front of the room who were going to take him into custody on a federal warrant from Florida.

So Bennett “quickly walked out past the two [agents] who were standing right there waiting to cuff him and Bennett hauled ass out of the courtroom,” said a court officer.

Bennett later appeared in Brooklyn federal court, on a request that he be shipped to Florida to face charges there of possessing credit-card-making machines and blank credit cards with holograms.

“What name would you like me to call you during these proceedings?” asked Brooklyn federal court Judge James Orenstein.

The perp — looking perplexed — hesitated, and then took a full minute to answer that he would prefer to be called Richard Middleton, the name he is charged under in Orlando, Fla., federal court.

Bennett — a k a Middleton, a k a, a bunch of other names — was ordered held without bond until his next Brooklyn federal court appearance on March 14 as authorities try to confirm he really is the man named in the federal warrant out of Florida.

Additional reporting by Jamie Schram, Larry Celona and Josh Margolin