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NYPD DAILY CRIME BLOTTER

- Daniel Prendergas­t

Queens

The suspects pictured above assaulted and robbed a taxi driver in Jamaica, according to authoritie­s on Wednesday.

The man and woman hailed a green cab at 95th Avenue and Sutphin Boulevard at about 3 a.m. Sunday for a ride to a nearby address, police said.

After traveling less than a mile on Sutphin, the couple hopped out of the cab without paying, according to cops.

The 27-year-old driver yelled and began to follow them, but then the female suspect pulled a gun and threatened to shoot him unless he handed over his wallet, police said.

The driver refused, at which point the male suspect punched him in the face several times and stole his wallet and two cellphones sitting on the front seat of the cab, cops said.

The woman was wearing a gray hoodie and her cohort a red jacket.

Brooklyn

An NYPD traffic-enforcemen­t agent was arrested in Bushwick when he got into a fight over a blocked driveway, authoritie­s said Wednesday.

Jhmal Cole, 30, was off duty in his personal vehicle when a man identified as Javier Gonzalez, 48, told him the vehicle was blocking a driveway on Jefferson Street at about 11 p.m. Tuesday, police said.

When Cole refused to move the car, Gonzalez reached through the window and snatched a Gatorade from the cup holder, cops said. Cole responded by punching Gonzalez in the face, police said. Both men were arrested. Cole was charged with assault and Gonzalez with criminal mischief.

The suspect pictured above stole about $12,300 from a parked and unattended truck in East Flatbush, law-enforcemen­t authoritie­s said Wednesday.

The delivery vehicle was on Flatbush Avenue near Farragut Road when the suspect opened the unlocked door at about 9:30 a.m. on Oct. 14, cops said.

The suspect removed money from an unlocked safe and fled in a gray Hyundai Veracruz, police officials said.

She was wearing a dark, hooded winter jacket and blue jeans, police said.

Police have identified a suspect in the fatal shoot- ing of a man in Bedford-Stuyvesant.

Michael Woolridge (above), 43, has been on the loose since he pulled the trigger on Shane McCargo, 44, during a fight in front of a barbershop on Marcus Garvey Boulevard near Jefferson Avenue at about 9 p.m. on June 7, police said.

Woolridge was described as about 5-foot-5 and 170 pounds, cops said.

A fight between roommates at a Flatbush apartment turned deadly Wednesday when one bashed the other over the head with a hammer, authoritie­s said.

Omer Fatahelrhm­an, 53, was killed when his 42year-old roommate, whose name was not released, attacked him with the hammer as they were brawling at the home on East 18th Street near Cortelyou Road just before 11 a.m., according to officials.

The roommate is in custody and is expected to be charged with murder.

Police are looking for a man who threatened to shoot a crossing guard and students from an all-girls Jewish school in East Flatbush while making antiSemiti­c comments, authoritie­s said Wednesday.

The suspect stopped his gold Cadillac Escalade near Beth Rivkah Elementary School at Lefferts and Brooklyn avenues at about 5:50 p.m. Monday.

When the crossing guard asked him to move the vehicle because it was blocking the crosswalk, the man rolled down the window, showed the guard a gun and said, “Why are you protecting the Jewish girls? I’ll shoot you all.”

The suspect is black and in his 40s or 50s.

The Bronx

Police have released new details in the violent home invasion and robbery of two women in their Yates Avenue apartment.

The three assailants stole two iPhone 6 phones, a purse, credit cards and cash, and took off in a black SUV, possibly a Jeep Liberty, authoritie­s revealed.

The women were in the home at about 4:25 p.m. on Jan. 15 when the thugs barged in — one holding a gun — and demanded cash and property.

The victims were pistolwhip­ped until one woman escaped out of a window and the other lapsed into unconsciou­sness.

Both victims were treated at Jacobi Medical Center, officials said.

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