Metro

NYPD Daily Blotter

Manhattan

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Authorities are searching for the bank robber known as the “White Glove Bandit,” who on the Lower East Side yesterday morning struck for the fourth time.

At 9 a.m. he robbed the HSBC branch on Broadway near East 9th Street and fled with an undisclosed sum of cash, according to the FBI.

He had previously hit the branch on Jan. 26.

The bandit gets his moniker from his habit of wearing white latex gloves during his capers.

On Feb. 14 and March 12 he robbed the Citibank branch on La Guardia Place, the feds said.

The crook has a scar on the right side of his nose, is garbed all in black, and carries a black revolver and a backpack.

Anyone with information is asked to call the FBI’s New York office at (212) 384-1000.

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An armed crook asked a cashier at a Washington Heights supermarket for change for a $5 bill — and then pulled a handgun as he cleaned out the register, cops said yesterday.

The robbery, captured on surveillance video (see video at nypost.com), shows the suspect at the Gristedes on Broadway near West 170th Street at about 7:40 p.m. Monday.

The thief is chatting on his cellphone when he suddenly pulls the weapon.

The Bronx

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An ex-con with a lengthy rap sheet was shot dead in the South Bronx, cops said.

Ronald Benedict, 27, was blasted multiple times in the neck, arm and chest in front of 671 Kelly St. at 11:38 p.m. Monday, cops added.

Benedict served a year in prison on a 2006 drug-sale conviction and had at least 17 prior arrests, records show.

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A Morris Heights man waged a campaign of terror against his former flame, authorities said.

Mark Watkins, 32, began threatening the mother of his child on April 7 when he pushed her into her apartment on Andrews Avenue near West 176th Street, grabbed her by the neck and held her against a wall, court papers state.

He allegedly trashed her apartment and sliced her left hand with a knife.

The next night, she awoke to Watkins holding a blade to her throat, the court papers state.

On April 9 he allegedly kicked open the door and snarled, “I’m going to cut your arms and legs off.”

Watkins was arrested that day.

Brooklyn

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A man killed his boyfriend and then turned the gun on himself yesterday after a jealous fight in East New York, law-enforcement sources said.

The murder-suicide occurred after Jason Lopez, 22, discovered Tory Curtis, 23, with another man in Curtis’ home on Milford Street shortly before 3:10 p.m, sources said.

Lopez shot Curtis in the head, then himself, sources added. Both were pronounced dead at the scene.

The other man was not injured.

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A 21-year-old man was gunned down early yesterday in East Flatbush, police said.

The victim, whose name was withheld pending family notification, had been shot in the back.

He was discovered at around 3:30 a.m. on East 38th Street near Church Avenue, and pronounced dead at Kings County Hospital.

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A mother and her two young children barely escaped serious injury yesterday when a driver ran a red light in Coney Island.

The unidentified mom and her kids — a boy on foot and another child in a stroller — were crossing Surf Avenue at 9:08 a.m. when a female motorist heading east on Surf ran a red light at 21st Street, officials and witnesses said.

The woman’s car slammed into a vehicle legally turning from 21st Street, and also struck the mom and her son.

“God must have been looking out for them because it would have been a real sad moment,” said witness James Smith, 40.

All three members of the family were taken to Lutheran Hospital, as were the motorist who ran the light, a child in her car and the motorist making the turn.

No one was seriously injured. Officials did not release the names of the motorist or the crash victims, and it wasn’t immediately known if any summonses were issued.

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Seventeen people suffered minor injuries yesterday when a school bus full of children collided with a car in Fort Greene, authorities said.

The accident occurred at Park and North Portland avenues at around 10:40 a.m. No criminality is suspected, police said.

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A Parks Department worker attacked a colleague at the Red Hook Recreation Center, cops said.

Melinda Williams, 28, assaulted the victim at 9 a.m. on April 12, cops said.

The victim was treated for cuts and bruises, and Williams was arrested.