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Thief stuffs turkey down pants

A thief grabs the turkey from the Fine Fare Grocery case. (
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He leans against the case and crams the bird into his pants. (
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An unnatural bulge gives the suspect away as he walks off. (
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This birdbrained bandit took turkey stuffing to a whole new level.

A Brooklyn teen was caught on video shoving a 12-pound turkey breast into his baggy sweatpants — and then waddling out of a Bed-Stuy grocery with an irate butcher hot on his trail, sources said yesterday.

“He’s got a big turkey in his pants!” Fine Fare Grocery cashier Michelle Benjamin yelled to butcher Sergio Marte, who chased down alleged poultry poacher Deon Williams, 19, outside the Marcus Garvey Boulevard store.

VIDEO: TURKEY HEIST

“You have something in your pants!” Marte barked at Williams, who squealed back, “I’ll give it to you — don’t touch me!”

“I don’t want to touch you — just give me the turkey!” Marte demanded.

Williams dumped it on the street, and when Marte bent over to pick it up, the teen clocked him in the jaw, the butcher said.

“He swung at me, and then he ran,” the 42-year-old butcher said, showing off a still-swollen cheek.

The brazen heist was caught on surveillance video, and cops nabbed Williams on Wednesday.

As for the turkey, it went right back on the shelf.

Marte insisted the $84 worth of Boar’s Head Oven Gold “was in good condition.”

Monday’s fowl filching began at around 10:30 a.m. with Williams strolling up to the busy store’s deli counter and clearing some space in front.

The teen casually opened the deli case door, and leaned into a stocked display as two young accomplices looked on, surveillance video showed.

The bandit tucked a turkey under his arm, turned away from the case and stuffed it into his pants and against his leg, sources said.

Williams then strode the aisles, ignoring the customers and workers who all watched his handiwork.

“We know this guy,” store owner Julio Delossantos told The Post. “He had two friends with him. I believe they were learning from him.

“Even though customers were there, he did it right in front of them.”

The cashier, Benjamin, said, “I saw him putting it in his clothes,” adding that she saw his two apprentices paying close attention. “I asked [Williams], ‘What are you teaching the both of them?’ ”

She said she demanded the teen put the turkey back — and he claimed he would, but instead, he just walked out the door.

“We told the manager to look at the camera, but by the time he did, they were already walking out,” Benjamin said.

Williams was charged with robbery, petit larceny and criminal possession of the stolen poultry. He is due back in court Nov. 15.

It’s not the first time he used his pants to stash a five-finger discount, sources said.

Williams was arrested on Aug. 5 after trying to smuggle seven cans of Red Bull out of a bodega on Manhattan Avenue in Greenpoint, authorities said.

jamie.schram@nypost.com