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The man in this picture (above) is being sought for questioning in connection with the early-morning theft of a cellphone and the ensuing assault on its owner in Hell’s Kitchen, police said.

The man in this picture (above) is being sought for questioning in connection with the early-morning theft of a cellphone and the ensuing assault on its owner in Hell’s Kitchen, police said.

Manhattan

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Police have released a sketch of a man suspected of sexually assaulting a 21-year-old woman early yesterday in East Harlem.

The attack occurred in a hallway of an East 106th Street building at 2:30 a.m., cops said.

The attacker forced himself onto the woman before fleeing, police said.

He was described as in his mid-30s, about 5-foot-10 and 180 pounds. He was wearing a black and red hoodie.

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A man is being sought for questioning in connection with the early-morning theft of a cellphone and the ensuing assault on its owner in Hell’s Kitchen, police said.

The owner, a 22-year-old man, was on Ninth Avenue and 44th Street at 4:20 a.m. on March 21 when the thief walked up and brazenly plucked the phone out of his pocket, cops said.

When the owner tried to grab it back, the thief punched him in the face and ran off, the cops said.

The victim was treated for minor injuries at Roosevelt Hospital.

The suspect was described as about 25 years old and was wearing camouflage pants, police said.

Brooklyn

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A loser with a suspended license stole a car on a Park Slope street and drove around for five days in and around the same neighborhood — leading to his arrest, according to a Criminal Court complaint.

John Cush, 31, boosted the 2003 Kia Optima from Sixth Avenue and 13th Street at about 7:20 p.m. on April 19, the complaint says.

He was spotted a few hours later on Fifth Avenue near 84th Street in Bay Ridge, but escaped capture, police said.

Officers with the NYPD Auto Crimes Unit finally stopped him on April 24 on Fifth Avenue and 10th Street, back in Park Slope, the complaint alleges.

Cush was charged with grand larceny, criminal possession of stolen property and aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle, the complaint states.

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How about this for a modus operandi:

She steals only purses containing Macy’s credit cards, then goes on shopping sprees there, authorities say.

Cops suspect that one sticky-fingered woman is behind four recent purse snatchings in the Macy’s branch at Fulton and Hoyt streets in Downtown Brooklyn.

The handbags all disappeared between April 13 and 23, according to investigators.

And each theft occurred in the late afternoon or early evening, primarily between the hours of 3 and 6 p.m. — after which the stolen credit cards were quickly used to purchase a variety of items, police said.

The Bronx

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A 24-year-old thug beat up, robbed and otherwise terrorized his ex-girlfriend over the course of several days in an apartment they shared at the Morris Houses in Tremont, a Criminal Court complaint alleges.

Derrick Craig stole the woman’s necklace on April 20, telling her, “I’m not gonna give back the necklace,” according to the complaint.

The next day, at 2:30 p.m., he grabbed her, threw her onto the bed, choked her, forced her to her knees, slapped her face and punched her in the chest, according to the complaint.

Two days later, on April 23, he called her at about 11 p.m. and allegedly snarled, “I’m gonna get someone to shoot up your house. You don’t know who I know.”

Craig was taken into custody Sunday and charged with petit larceny, assault and aggravated harassment, police said.

Queens

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A Brooklyn cop was arrested after roughing up his girlfriend in Hollis, police sources said.

Allen Cedeno, 30, was driving on 202nd Street near 104th Avenue at about 6:30 a.m. Wednesday when he grabbed the woman by the neck and began choking her, according to a Criminal Court complaint.

Cedeno, who has been assigned to a precinct in Brooklyn since 2006, then pulled over, yanked the woman out of the vehicle, and flung her to the sidewalk, the complaint says.

He was arrested a short time later on charges that included assault, reckless endangerment and harassment, according to the complaint.