GPS foils a Radio ’Jack

TWO MEN who robbed workers at a Brooklyn Radio Shack at gunpoint were called out by the property they y boosted — GPS- equipped phones, , cop sources said d Tuesday.

The robbers, s, busted about two o hours after Monday night’s crime in the East Flatbush home of one suspect, may also be the culprits in a string of similar thefts, according to the sources.

“This has been going on unfortunately for a while,” Police Commissioner Bill Bratton said of the thefts. “The good news is they made some arrests.”

A source said police have been working with Radio Shack to equip smartphones in stock with activated GPS devices so they can be tracked if stolen. The plan is modeled on last year’s initiative to put GPS trackers in pill bottles so they can be located in pharmacy robberies.

A source said the NYPD works closely with 3SI Security Systems, a Pennsylvania firm that bills itself as a GPS-tracking expert. A 3SI official refuse fused Tuesday to discu cuss the compan ny’s methods.

“We don’t want to educate the criminal,” said the official official, who asked that his name not be printed.

The Radio Shack robbery happened about 7:45 p.m., when two crooks burst into the store on Rockaway Parkway near Seaview Ave. in Canarsie, forced workers into a back room, grabbeda bunch of cell phones and took off.

At about 10 p.m., a phalanx of cops showed up at E. 45th St. in East Flatbush and nabbed a man in his 40s and a 29-year-old — paroled last month — in the older man’s first-floor apartment, authorities said.