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Brooklyn

Four men robbed a diner in East New York, police said.

The thieves stormed 3D’s Castle Restaurant on Ashford Street at 3:20 a.m. on Feb. 13, cops said.

One of the robbers waved a gun while his ­cohorts jumped over the counter and snatched a cash drawer containing about $900.

The robbers then hopped into a silver Jeep and sped off, according to police.


A public-school substitute teacher was arrested after assaulting his girlfriend in their East New York home, cops said.

Darnell Alston, 23, attacked his live-in gal-pal at 10:30 a.m. Thursday, ­according to police.

He was charged with assault and criminal mischief. The victim declined medical attention.

Queens

Police are looking for a burglar who cut through the roofs of stores in South Richmond Hill and South Ozone Park.

The suspect lowered himself into the 99¢ Deal store on Liberty Avenue sometime between 8:30 p.m. on Jan. 31 and 9:30 a.m. the next day and grabbed $200 in cash, according to police.

On Feb. 5 he broke into the Pioneer Supermarket on 111th Avenue at about 3:50 a.m. and took phone cards, lottery tickets and $1,400 in cash, cops said.

He was caught on camera that time, police added.


Police released a photograph of an alleged thief who they say snatched a cellphone from an electronics-store clerk in South Richmond Hill.

The suspect (right) walked into Liberty Avenue Wireless World near 113th Street at about 7:30 p.m. on Feb. 4, reached over a counter and snatched the worker’s phone, cops said.

Staten Island

That was an E-Z bust.

Port Authority police nabbed a driver who had no license on the Goethals Bridge, authorities said.

Lenny Gill, 26, of Florida, was headed east in a white tractor-trailer at the toll plaza at about noon Tuesday when officers noticed his license plate was partially obscured and his rig had a missing headlight, Port Authority police said.

He did not have an ­E-ZPass and cops learned that his driver’s license had been revoked in New York and Florida, law-enforcement sources said.

Gill had been arrested in Queens last year for driving without a license, the sources added.


A lovebird became a jailbird for assaulting his beau in St. George following a Valentine’s Day date, law-enforcement sources said.

Lekeith Lewis, 43, and the 41-year-old victim began arguing early last Saturday after a night out, sources added.

Cupid’s arrow had apparently missed the mark because at about 3 a.m. the dispute turned violent and Lewis attacked the victim, police said.

Lewis turned himself in Thursday at the 120th Precinct station house.

He was charged with criminal obstruction of breathing, cops said.

The Bronx

A 36-year-old woman was shot as she fought off two carjackers in Morris Heights, police said.

The victim was parking a 2013 Land Rover near 168th Street and College Avenue at 3:50 a.m. Thursday when two men, one armed with a pistol, approached and demanded that she exit the car, cops said.

The woman resisted and struggled as they tried to pull her out.

The gunman finally shot her in the arm and the thugs fled, police sources said.

The victim drove herself to Jacobi Medical Center where she was treated for a graze wound, cops said.

Five thugs approached a man in Soundview and one shot him, cops said.

The 21-year-old victim was in front of the Monroe Houses on Story Avenue near Taylor Avenue at around 1:50 a.m. Thursday, according to police.

The assailants, believed to be about 19 years old, came up and one shot him twice in the left armpit, cops said.

The victim was in stable condition at Jacobi Medical Center.