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Brooklyn

Police are searching for a man who exposed himself to a female custodian at Pratt Institute in Clinton Hill Friday morning, authorities said.

The suspect entered the university chemistry building at about 8:40 a.m. and exposed himself to a 46-year-old female employee cleaning floors, cops said.

He’s described as about 5-foot-9 and 180 pounds and was wearing red pants and a black T-shirt.


A thief got caught red-meat-handed after stuffing six steaks into her purse at a Borough Park grocery store and attempting to exit without paying, a Criminal Court complaint alleges.

Marie Pray was in Pathmark at 61st Street and 13th Avenue at about 2:40 p.m. on July 29 when she shoved the meat in her purse, according to police.

A worker caught her attempting to exit and alerted security, who held her for cops, the law-enforcement sources said.

Pray was charged with criminal possession of stolen property and petit larceny, according to the complaint.

Manhattan

Police arrested a gun-toting cyclist in Harlem early Saturday, cops said.

A lieutenant and a detective responded to a call of shots fired at Lenox Avenue and East 115th Street just after midnight, police said.

They were led to a suspect, Shavar Hickman, 40, two blocks away and moved in, cops said.

He refused to cooperate and shoved and kicked cops as they attempted to question and then cuff him, authorities said.

Cops say they found a loaded .357-caliber pistol tucked in a back brace he was wearing.

Hickman was charged with three counts of criminal possession of a loaded firearm and with resisting arrest.

His rap sheet lists prior arrests for attempted murder, assault, robbery and criminal possession of a controlled substance, as well as a few gun-possession charges for which he served time on a felony conviction, cops said.


Police are continuing their hunt for a fiend who stabbed a foe in front of stunned children near an East Harlem playground.

The victim, Timothy Goodwin of The Bronx, got into a heated argument with the 5-foot-7 thug wearing a white ­T-shirt and jeans at East 124th Street and Madison Avenue at 1 p.m. Friday, cops said Saturday.

He knifed Goodwin in the neck and fled, police said.

The Bronx

Police arrested a man in medical scrubs who raped a 24-year-old woman in a Bronx parking lot last month.

The suspect, identified as Christavian Trenier, 22, allegedly pulled a gun on the victim near East Tremont Avenue and Meyers Street at 5:30 a.m. on July 20 and ordered her into a nearby parking lot, according to police.

The suspect was caught on surveillance video wearing white medical scrubs and red sneakers, police said.

Trenier was charged with rape, criminal sexual act and criminal possession of a weapon, cops said.

He lives near the Cross Bronx Expressway, about a 10-minute car ride from where the rape occurred, law-enforcement sources said.