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Brooklyn

■ A man yanked a necklace from the neck of a woman aboard a subway train in Sunset Park, cops said.

The victim was seated on a southbound F train at the Fort Hamilton Parkway stop when the thief grabbed the necklace and fled the station at about 1:25 p.m. Monday, according to police.

He was described as ­5-foot-9 and 180 pounds, wearing a blue shirt and khaki pants, cops said.

■ A jogger got spooked by what she thought for a moment looked like a human skeleton in Prospect Park Wednesday, cops said.

At 5 p.m. on a jogging path near Ocean Avenue, Kate Steciw ran into the upright skeleton on which a Brooklyn Nets cap, goggles and a white T-shirt had been placed.

Also, four paintings of flowers were arranged around the skeleton and an American flag was strung in the trees behind it.

She called police, who quickly determined that the skeleton was plastic.

Cops are investigating the weird discovery but said no criminality is suspected.

■ A man is wanted for sexually abusing a woman in a Bay Ridge park, cops said.

The 35-year-old victim was in the park near PS 198 at 95th Street and Third Avenue at about 10:20 p.m. on July 16 when he approached from behind and threw her onto a park bench, cops said.

He put his hand up her skirt, touched her over her underwear and then fled, cops said.


 Queens

■ Cops arrested a suspect Wednesday in the attempted murder of police officers in June, authorities said.

Christian Mosquera, 20, was hit with a handful of charges in the June 21 attack, when he pulled a gun on cops who had arrived in a Corona neighborhood in response to trespassing ­reports, ­according to police.

Officers on the scene demanded that Mosquera drop his weapon, but he fired several shots at them and then fled, authorities said. No officer was hit.

Investigators recovered Mosquera’s .22 caliber handgun at the scene, ­authorities said.

Mosquera was arrested in New Jersey after cops received an anonymous tip regarding his whereabouts.

He was charged with attempted murder of police officers, criminal possession of a weapon, reckless endangerment and other charges, according to cops.

■ Police nabbed a man who allegedly killed a father in a St. Albans bar brawl in June, cops said .

Police tracked down Fruitquana Hawkins, 33, to a hideout in Georgia and arrested him on July 10 in connection with the June 14 slaying, cops said Wednesday.

An argument between Hawkins and the victim, Timothy Tripp, 35, broke out inside the Edge Bar and Lounge on Merrick Boulevard near 125th Avenue, cops said.

Tripp — who worked as a construction worker and coached a children’s football league — was shot in the head and chest, authorities said.

He was pronounced dead at the scene, cops said.

Hawkins was charged with murder, criminal possession of a weapon and reckless endangerment.


 Staten Island

■ The man pictured above stole five backpacks from a New Springville JCPenney, cops said.

A 60-year-old store employee ran after the thief and tried to stop him, but the suspect punched him in the face.

Cops describe the suspect as 20 years old and ­5-foot-8 with braided hair.

He was last seen wearing a white T-shirt and camouflage pants, police said.

■ A New Jersey man was arrested for stealing three checks from a 77-year-old man and then cashing them at a TD bank in Great Kills, authorities said.

Michael Burgos, 21, admitted to taking the checks and walking into the bank on Amboy Road near Richmond Avenue at approximately 9 a.m. Monday, according to a Criminal Court complaint.

Burgos allegedly cashed the checks totaling $1,050.

Surveillance video from the bank caught him in the act.

“That’s me, I cashed the checks,” Burgos said when questioned about the video, according to the complaint.

He was charged with grand larceny, criminal possession of stolen property and petit larceny, said a spokesman for District Attorney Daniel Donovan.