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The Bronx

A Claremont man with a long rap sheet robbed a Laundromat and returned home nearby, where he was soon arrested, cops said.

Jerome Smith, 42, walked into 303 Laundromat at East 170th Street and College Avenue at 4:40 a.m. Thursday and demanded cash from the manager, ­according to police.

He pointed to a bulge in his waistband, put the manager in a choke hold, led him to a back room and snatched a cellphone and $60, cops said.

Smith fled the scene but cops ID’d him via surveillance video, police said.

Officers came knocking on his door at 8 a.m. and he later confessed, police said.


A potato-chip deliveryman was robbed in broad daylight in Castle Hill, cops said.

The 42-year-old victim, who works for Lays, was making a delivery at Randall and Castle Hill avenues at 12:15 p.m. on June 19 when a thug accosted him, reached into the guy’s back pocket, grabbed $600 and fled, police said.

Brooklyn

Police believe the man used counterfeit money orders to buy $20,000 worth of slippers and throw pillows in Borough Park.

It wasn’t immediately clear where the transaction took place, but investigators believe Zongtai Zhu, 45, met with a 38-year-old Brooklyn based distributor, from whom he purchased 700 pairs of slippers and 100 throw pillows, cops said.

Zhu, of Brooklyn, is believed to be about 5-foot-5 with brown eyes and black hair.


A hit-and-run driver seriously injured a pedestrian in Williamsburg early Saturday, cops said.

The driver of a white vehicle was traveling south on Bushwick Avenue near Maujer Street when he struck the 36-year-old man at about 2:30 a.m., according to police.

The driver fled the scene and left the victim bloodied with facial injuries and a broken ankle, cops said.

The victim was in stable condition at Elmhurst Hospital.


A 23-year-old man was fatally knifed in Flatbush early Saturday, cops said.

A thug plunged the knife into the neck and chest of the victim at Utica Avenue and Union Street at 5 a.m.

Emergency responders rushed the man to Kings County Hospital, where he was pronounced dead on arrival, cops said.

Queens

A thief burglarized a Flushing gas-station convenience store, stealing cash from an ATM inside, cops said.

The theft occurred sometime Wednesday night or early Thursday at the Gulf station on Cooper Avenue near 73rd Place, cops said.

A manager opening for business at 9:30 a.m. Thursday realized someone had broken in by breaking a gate lock, police said.

Investigators discovered two drill holes in the ATM’s lockbox, which had contained about $2,700, police said. Cops are scouring the area for video-surveillance footage.