New York Post

NYPD DAILY BLOTTER

- Amanda Woods and Daniel Prendergas­t

Queens

Cops are looking for the suspect (above) who allegedly harassed a woman on a subway train from Jamaica to Kensington, Brooklyn, and back again.

The 33-year-old victim was followed by the man onto an F train at the 169th Street station at 8:15 a.m. on July 11, authoritie­s said. He followed her into a deli on Caton Avenue after she departed the train, they said.

When the victim went over to the freezer, he approached her from behind and snapped a picture under her dress with his phone, officials said. He then trailed her back to the station, they said.

As she got off the train back at 169th Street, the man slapped her on the buttocks, authoritie­s said.

He is about 28 years old, 5-foot-8 and 170 pounds, with a dark complexion and black hair.

The Bronx

A woman was arrested after she snatched her infant from a Mott Haven foster-care agency without permission, police sources said Wednesday.

The 6-month-old was taken from New York Foundling Bronx Community Services at 12:15 p.m. Monday by her mother, whose name was not released, during visiting hours, the sources said.

Police are hunting for two teens who allegedly grabbed a woman’s cellphone on a train in Wakefield.

The boys were seated across from the 19-yearold victim on a Brooklynbo­und No. 2 train at 9 a.m. on June 20.

The suspects (left) exited at the 233rd Street station but one of them ran back onto the train and grabbed the woman’s phone and fled with his pal, cops said.

Both suspects are about 15 years old and 5-foot-6.

A man was shot dead in Melrose, authoritie­s said.

Police responding to a ShotSpotte­r alert found Andrew Nieves, 24, shot in the back on East 153rd Street just before midnight Tuesday.

Paramedics rushed him to Lincoln Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

Cops are searching for three suspects (two pictured above) who allegedly robbed a 16-year-old boy at gunpoint at a Wakefield subway station.

The victim was on a southbound No. 2 train near the Nereid Avenue station at 8:20 p.m. on July 13, when three other boys pulled a gun on him.

The thieves ordered him to hand over his sneakers and a student MetroCard.

The suspects are in their late teens and are between 5-foot-5 and 5-foot-8.

Manhattan

A thief who stole a girl’s iPhone in Midtown jumped into the East River in a bid to escape police, authoritie­s said.

The 13-year-old victim was walking near Third Avenue and East 51st Street at about 8 a.m. Wednesday when the thief rolled up on a bike, ripped the phone out of her hand and fled.

Police from the 17th Precinct used the FindMyiPho­ne app to track the device to East 23rd Street near the East River, where they spotted the thief, whom they identified as Eulofio Cardona, 33.

Cardona dived into the river to escape cops, police said.

When he refused to return to land, two Emergency Service Unit cops suited up, dived into the water and nabbed him.

Brooklyn

Officers are looking for this suspect (above) who allegedly pummeled another straphange­r and pulled her hair after they bumped on a BedfordStu­yvesant train.

The 21-year-old victim bumped into the suspect on a Manhattan-bound J train at about 9:30 a.m. on July 11 when she stepped aside to let passengers off at Broadway Junction, according to police.

The suspect then pulled the victim to the ground and punched her in the face, giving the victim a concussion, cops said.

The attacker is between 20 and 25 years old, 5-foot-5 and thin. She was wearing a black tank top, a black-and-white print skirt and flip-flops.

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