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Daily Blotter

Manhattan

â–  Four men robbed a teen on the Upper East Side, cops said.

The 17-year-old victim was on 86th Street near Madison Avenue when the thugs surrounded him at about 1:30 a.m. Wednesday, police said.

The menacing quartet grabbed his cellphone, headphones and a necklace, street video surveillance shows.

The small-time hoods then fled.

■ Police are looking for the woman who forged withdrawal slips and fled with $2,000 from a Roosevelt ­Island bank branch, cops said.

The suspect used a fake ID and forged the slips at the Amalgamated branch on Main Street between June 12 and June 23, cops said.


The Bronx

â–  Police are looking for a gun-toting robber who has been targeting livery cabdrivers taking him from The Bronx to Manhattan, cops said.

He first hailed a cab at
11 p.m. on July 18 in The Bronx and asked to be taken to an address on Edgecombe Avenue near West 150th Street in Hamilton Heights, Manhattan.

At the destination, the thug pulled a gun on the 32-year-old hack and fled on foot with $87 and the driver’s iPhone, law-enforcement authorities said.

The cab crook struck again at 10 p.m. Tuesday, taking a cab from The Bronx to the same Edgecombe Avenue address, cops said.

The thug pulled a gun on the 56-year-old driver, but for some undisclosed reason fled empty-handed.

Neither cabby was injured in the robberies.

The suspect, believed to be in his 30s, stands about 5-foot-8 and weighs about 180 pounds.

He was last seen wearing a baseball cap, sunglasses and a T-shirt.


Staten Island

â–  A man used a stolen credit card to quench his thirst for cheap beer at a New Springville deli, cops said.

The brew-guzzling suspect was wearing dark shades when he presented the purloined plastic to a clerk at Nome Superette at Richmond and Nome avenues at about 7 a.m. on July 17, said law-enforcement authorities.

The card had been stolen from a parked car near the Staten Island Zoo.


Queens

â–  Three thugs pistol- whipped and robbed a livery cabby in Woodhaven, law-enforcement authorities said.

The suspects got into the cab at 104th Street and 85th Road at approximately
4 a.m. last Sunday, according to police.

The thugs got out at 101st Street and Rockaway Boulevard in Jamaica and demanded cash from the driver, cops said.

Two of the crooks grabbed him while the third punched him several times, then pulled a black pistol and struck him in the face and skull, said law-enforcement authorities.

They snatched the victim’s iPhone, a Verizon 4G tablet and his wallet containing $250, police said.

The 60-year-old driver suffered deep cuts to the left eye and swelling to the face, cops said.

He received hospital treatment for the injuries, authorities said.

Police detectives were looking at surveillance video from inside the livery vehicle that showed the robbers.

Cops investigating shots fired in Crown Heights nabbed four people on weapons charges after someone tossed a backpack containing three loaded guns out an apartment window, authorities said.

Officers were searching for the shooter on St. Marks Avenue near Franklin Avenue at 7:10 p.m. Thursday when they saw a black backpack drop, cops said.

Cops found three loaded handguns inside the bag, and were able to pinpoint the apartment from where the backpack was dropped.

Three men and a woman initially refused to open the door but eventually surrendered, police said.

Quintin Fitts, 24, Jameque Moore, 26, Anthony Stukes, 28, and Naquanda Campbell, 25, were charged with weapons possession and reckless endangerment.