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Brooklyn

The man pictured above snatched an iPhone from a pedestrian’s pocket in Williamsburg, authorities said.

The 30-year-old victim was walking on North Third Street near Kent Avenue at 10 a.m. on July 30 when the crook ran up and grabbed the smartphone, police said.

The suspect was last seen wearing a baseball cap, a gray T-shirt with green lettering on the front and camouflage pants.


A shooter critically injured a foe and wounded an innocent bystander in Flatbush, cops said.

The 31-year-old victim was outside Friendly Deli at Church Avenue and 48th Street at 1 a.m. Wednesday when the gunman fired at least 10 rounds, according to police.

The intended target suffered gunshot wounds to the head, torso and legs, cops said.

He was in critical condition after surgery at Kings County Hospital, sources said.

One of the bullets ricocheted and hit a 45-year-old woman in the arm, cops said. Her injury was not life-threatening.

The gunman, believed to be about 5-foot-8, was last seen wearing white gloves and a black hoodie that partially obscured his face. That garment has a white circular emblem on the back, police said.

He fled south on 48th Street.

Investigators recovered shell casings from a 9mm semi-automatic pistol at the scene, cops said.

The Bronx

A Hunts Point firebug tried to burn an apartment in a building where he used to live, police said.

Jemal Guity started the blaze on the fourth floor of the St. John Avenue building at 12:45 p.m. Tuesday, cops said.

No one was injured.

Guity is 25 years old, 5-foot-8 and 200 pounds, cops said.


Police are looking for the man pictured above who allegedly broke into a Fordham apartment and stole $80, authorities said.

He picked the lock to the apartment on Valentine Avenue sometime between 8 a.m. and 9 p.m. on July 23, snatched the cash and fled, according to police.


The man broke into the basement of a West Bronx residential building and stole construction tools, police said.

He smashed a window to get into the building basement on Grand Concourse near East 180th Street at about 2:40 a.m. on July 17, officials said.

He then grabbed a drill, a metal cutter and other equipment valued at about $700, according to police.

He’s about 6 feet tall and 180 pounds, and was last seen wearing blue jeans, a blue long-sleeve shirt, black sneakers and a gray turban, cops said.

Queens

Police are investigating the death of a woman whose badly decomposed body was found in Little Bay Park in Bayside.

The victim was found at about 10:15 a.m. Tuesday near 14th Road and Utopia Parkway with her clothing intact, but her remains were too decomposed to tell if she had suffered any physical trauma, cops said.

The Office of Chief Medical Examiner is working to determine the cause of death.

Staten Island

A jealous ex-boyfriend was arrested for using his vehicle to run his former flame off the road, and then attempting to assault her male friend with a billy club, sources said.

The 28-year-old victim was driving near Amboy Road and Clarke Avenue with her friend at about
9 p.m. on July 24 when her ex, Joseph Mollica, 47, allegedly started following her in his car, a Criminal Court complaint alleges.

Mollica drove his car next to the woman’s vehicle, causing her to veer into oncoming traffic and then off the road to avoid an ­accident, records state.

Mollica then got out of his car with a black billy club in hand and swung it at her 36-year-old boyfriend repeatedly, the documents state.

Mollica was charged with reckless endangerment, attempted assault, menacing, criminal possession of a weapon and harassment, said a spokesman for District Attorney Daniel Donovan.