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Fake-ID sellers face cell time

Fake-ID sellers are about to face real time.

State Sen. José Peralta’s bill to stiffen sentences for black-market document peddlers passed the Senate Thursday, and the Assembly is weighing a companion bill.

The “yes” vote came after a Post reporter purchased three forged federal and state identifications in an hour in February on Roosevelt Avenue in Jackson Heights, in Peralta’s Queens district, for $260.

The Democratic lawmaker is concerned the illegal-ID mills, ruled mostly by gangs, could provide credentials for criminals and terrorists.

“A terrorist plot to do us harm might be hatched in another country thousands of miles from here, but some of the tools to make it happen are being produced right in our own back yard,” said Peralta.

His bill would make the crime a “D” felony, carrying a 5-to-15-year sentence. It currently carries a lesser penalty of 2 1/3 to 15 years.