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Daily Blotter

Queens

■ This “bat” man isn’t hunting down criminals — he is the criminal, cops said.

Police say he robbed someone in a Rego Park apartment building.

The suspect was wearing a black stocking over his face and wielding a small bat when he cornered a victim, 23, in the elevator of the building on Saunders Street near 63rd Avenue at 5:45 a.m. Monday as the victim was heading to the airport, cops said.

The crook demanded the man’s luggage and made off with his suitcase, computer bag with a laptop inside and a cellphone, cops said.

The victim was not injured.


 Manhattan

■ A woman in Central Harlem fought off a would-be rapist inside her apartment building, cops said.

The 41-year-old target was sitting on her front stoop at about 9:30 p.m. Tuesday when a man walked over and tried to strike up a conversation, cops said.

The woman got up and went inside but the man followed her, cops said.

He grabbed her and tried to rape her but she put up a fight and sent the fiend running from the building, cops said.

He was seen on video on the street wearing black shorts and a green shirt emblazoned with the number “4” on it, cops said.

He is described as in his mid-20s and standing ­5-foot-8, cops said.

■ Cops say a man targeted a woman’s stroller on the Upper East Side and stole her wallet as her baby was strapped inside.

The 33-year-old woman was shopping at the 86th Street Fairway just before 1 p.m. on Aug. 8 at when the suspect reached into her pocketbook, hanging from the stroller, according to police.

The suspect grabbed the wallet and fled, police said.

No arrest has been made, cops said Thursday.


The Bronx

■ Police are looking for four suspects who tied up and robbed two people in Baychester, cops said.

Two suspects knocked on an apartment door on Wallace Avenue near Pelham Parkway at about 1:30 p.m. on Aug. 1 and claimed water was leaking into an apartment downstairs, police sources said.

The men were let in to take a peek at the bathroom, then two more robbers forced their way in, police sources said.

The four thugs tied up the residents and stole jewelry and cash totaling $14,000 from the apartment, cops said.

One suspect was described as standing approximately ­5-foot-9 and weighing between 230 and 260 pounds, cops said.

Also wanted is a woman approximately 5 feet tall and weighing between 170 and 190 pounds, last seen wearing jeans, a blue jacket and a hat, cops said.


 Staten Island

■ A couple of thieves used fake bills to buy electronics at Target in Heartland Village, cops said.

First, a woman hauled a pair of Beats headphones to the register and whipped out the fake bills on July 2 at about 8:30 p.m., according to police.

When the scheme worked, she went and told her accomplice, a man who stepped out of a Ford Fusion vehicle outside and also made purchases with counterfeit bills, cops said.

He used seven fake $100 bills to buy an iPad and a bunch of other electronics worth approximately $670, cops said.

The duo was seen on video surveillance.

■ A man in Stapleton drunkenly smashed a car into three parked vehicles early Friday, law-enforcement sources said.

David Gomez, 28, was behind the wheel of a 2008 GMC Suburban at about 2:40 a.m. when he collided with the parked cars at Bay and Wave streets, a criminal complaint states.

Gomez blew a .217 on a Breathalyzer, more than twice the legal driving limit, the complaint states.

He was charged with driving while intoxicated and aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle.