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NYPD Daily Blotter

The Bronx

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A 41-year-old man was found dead on a Mott Haven street early yesterday, police said.

The body was discovered at about 3:30 a.m. on 148th Street near Morris Avenue, and investigators said there was no evident sign of trauma.

The city medical examiner will determine the cause of death.

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Also in Mott Haven, two 17-year-olds were arrested for allegedly mugging a man for his smartphone.

Derrick Johnson allegedly approached the man at 3:50 p.m. Dec. 20 on East 138th Street near Third Avenue and told him, “I have a gun in my hand, and I got my boy in back of you. Let’s take a walk. You’re giving me your iPhone — right now!”

The phone owner complied, and Johnson and his accomplice, Sean Alston fled, only to be busted nearby a short while later, according to court papers.

Both were charged with robbery, grand larceny, petit larceny and criminal possession of stolen property, the records show.

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Throwing liquor in his girlfriend’s face, which burned her eyes, could be construed as assault — but Dashaun Davis removed all doubt by also punching her in the face, authorities said.

Davis, 25, went berserk at a home on East Burnside Avenue near Ryer Avenue in Mount Hope at about 4:45 p.m. Wednesday, court papers say.

The couple had gotten into an argument, and Davis allegedly pushed his girlfriend, then picked her up and tossed her around.

Then he grabbed the booze, the court records state.

He soon found himself charged with assault, menacing, criminal possession of a weapon and harassment, according to the records.

Manhattan

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A man with a long rap sheet was found mortally wounded on an East Harlem street by pals returning from Christmas shopping, police sources said.

Israel Vasquez, 35, of the Upper East Side, was waiting on 118th Street near First Avenue Saturday. When his friends came out of a store at 7:40 p.m., they found he’d been shot in the head, the sources said.

EMS rushed him to Harlem Hospital, but he died there, authorities said.

No arrests had been made as of last night.

Sources said Vasquez was charged with second-degree murder in 1995 and, more recently, with robbery and drug possession.

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An armed intruder forced his way into a Greenwich Village apartment early yesterday and ran off with a watch and an iPhone, cops said.

The 20-year-old tenant told cops the man approached him in the vestibule of his building on Waverly Place near Sixth Avenue at about 3:30 a.m. and flashed a black pistol, authorities said.

There had been no arrests as of last night.

Brooklyn

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Six men were slashed in an early-morning brawl at a Cypress Hills restaurant yesterday, police said.

The fight broke out at 2:35 a.m. in El Nuevo Puerto Plata on Fulton Street near Hale Avenue, cops said.

Four other men found at the scene were hauled off to the 75th Precinct station house, the cops said, but it was not immediately known whether they were considered suspects.

The wounded were taken to Woodhull Medical Center and Brookdale University Hospital and treated for what were described as non-life-threatening injuries.

Queens

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An off-duty NYPD traffic agent was arrested in a Rego Park department store after allegedly going shopping with a fake credit card.

Erika Armstrong, 22, allegedly offered the card at about 2 p.m. Saturday at the Sears on Queens Boulevard for payment on more than $1,000 in items, and soon found herself under arrest, sources said.

She was charged with possession of a forged instrument, criminal possession of stolen property and grand larceny, the sources said.

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A young man told police that he was abducted and beaten in Ridgewood after gang leaders accused him of quitting the Latin Kings without permission, law-enforcement sources said.

He said he was walking on Myrtle Avenue near Freedom Drive in Richmond Hills at about 11:30 a.m. Tuesday when the leader of the Latin Kings’ Ridgewood Empire chapter pointed a silver pistol at him and ordered him into his Mercedes-Benz, the sources said.

The alleged victim claimed he was taken to a home on 56th Street and informed that he would have to be roughed up before he could leave, the sources said.

He added that he was offered food and drink but turned them down and was suddenly attacked by 10 men, who kicked and punched him until he fainted, the sources said.

He awoke the next day, escaped and called his brother, who took him to a station house to file a police report, he said.

Problem is, he had no cuts, bruises or other signs of a beatdown, the sources said, although he was treated at Jamaica Hospital for a neck injury.

No arrests had been made as of last night.