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Staten Island

■ A thief sneaked into a St. George home and stole a stereo system, cops said.

A suspect crawled in through an unlocked window at the home on Campbell Avenue near Winegar Lane at about 11:45 p.m. on April 10, according to police.

The man, believed to be in his 20’s with a thin build, was seen on video surveillance, authorities said.


 Manhattan

■ A bicyclist snatched cash from a careless cabby’s vehicle in Chelsea when the driver stepped away to grab lunch and left his doors unlocked, cops said.

The pedal pusher was on 10th Avenue near West 28th Street at 2 p.m. Tuesday when he came across the unlocked yellow cab and scoured the vehicle for cash, according to ­police sources.

The 39-year-old cabby glanced up and saw the thief exiting the vehicle and fleeing, the sources said.

The thief fled on his bicycle with $300 in cash, cops said.

Police are searching for the bicyclist, who was last seen wearing a black baseball cap, black T-shirt and black shorts.

■ A man threatened to blow up a subway-station booth in an attempt to rob an MTA clerk in Midtown, cops said.

Shawn Francis, 21, of Boston, went up to the booth in the West 42nd Street/Eighth Avenue station on April 13 at around 12:25 a.m. and demanded money, cops said.

“Don’t play with your life. I have a bomb under my shirt. I’m going to blow up this booth,” he said, according to cops.

Francis stayed at the booth until police arrived and then he hightailed it, only to be apprehended a few blocks away, cops said.

He was charged with robbery and making a terroristic threat, cops said.

■ A brazen robber was nabbed in Murray Hill ­after trying to hit the same bank branch twice in one day, cops said.

Jack Cambric, 40, walked into the HSBC branch on Park Avenue near East 33rd Street on April 21 at about 1 p.m. and passed a teller a note stating, “I order, I authorize, and I instruct you to pay,” cops said.

He demanded that the teller hand over $100 bills.

The teller gave him $1,100 in marked bills known as “bait money” and he fled cops said. He returned about 2¹/₂ hours later and presented the same note, cops said.

The employees recognized him and called 911, and cops quickly made it to the scene, police said.

He was charged with robbery and attempted robbery.

■ The body of a 29-year-old man was found floating in the Hudson River off Chelsea, cops said.

The body was discovered fully clothed in the water near West 19th Street at Pier 59 at around 8:30 a.m. Friday, according to police.

Cops pulled the corpse out of the water, authorities said.

There appeared to be no signs of trauma on the body, according to police, who added that the Medical Examiner’s Office will be making an official cause-of-death determination.

The identity of the deceased, a Brooklyn resident, was withheld pending family notification, cops said.


 Queens

■ Police are looking for a man who used stolen credit-card information at a Target store in College Point to obtain electronics and a gift card, cops said.

The man, seen on video surveillance, entered the store at about 10 a.m. on March 5 wearing a brown hooded sweatshirt with a white Nike logo across the front, cops said.

He bought an iPad and an iTunes gift card worth a total of $355, cops said.

The identity-theft victim filed a report with ­police in Brooklyn.

■ A 37-year-old man dragged the mother of his two children out of her Whitestone home and assaulted her, police said.

The victim was in the home on 16th Road near 147th Street at 5:30 a.m. Friday when the man broke in through a back door and the two started arguing, police sources said.

He dragged her into his Mercedes and left the two kids behind, the sources said.

He then punched her in the ribs, and she suffered severe pain and bruising, cops said.

She was being treated for non-life-threatening injuries at New York Hospital Queens and was listed in stable condition, cops said.

The children, an 8-year-old boy and a 3-year-old girl, were unharmed, cops said. Charges were pending.