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A tip-toeing suspect cleaned out a backyard shed in Soundview, cops said.

The burglar crept up to the rear gate of the home on Rosedale Avenue at 2:30 a.m. on Aug. 7, glanced around and entered the yard, surveillance video shows.

The crook used a flashlight to scope out the yard before breaking into the shed, police said.

Investigators said the prowler lifted a welding machine, two saws, two power drills, a polishing machine and a welding helmet.

He is believed to be between 16 and 20 years old.

He was wearing glasses, a white T-shirt, shorts and white sneakers.


A crook snatched a woman’s cellphone aboard an elevated train at a station in Morris Heights, authorities said.

The 27-year-old victim was on board a southbound 4 train at the 176th Street stop at 3:30 p.m. on Aug. 15, when the sticky-fingered straphanger swiped her Samsung Galaxy phone and dashed from the station, according to cops.

The suspect is believed to be about ­5-foot-5 and 180 pounds, and has straight, black, shoulder-length hair.

He was last seen wearing a burgundy short-sleeve shirt, beige pants and white sneakers.


 Brooklyn

Cops released a sketch of one of the two sickos who sexually assaulted the same woman in separate incidents an hour apart in Clinton Hill.

The suspect depicted in the sketch accosted the 31-year-old victim on Irving Place near Putnam Avenue at 6 a.m. on Aug. 31, ­according to police.

Investigators said the fiend shoved the woman to the ground and sexually assaulted her.

Just an hour earlier, the same victim was knocked down and violated by a goon on Gates Avenue near Irving Place, authorities said.

The suspect in the earlier attack is believed to be about 5-foot-7 and wore a red T-shirt and blue jeans.

Both fiends told the victim they were packing guns, but the woman saw no weapons, cops said.

Police sources said a possible connection between the two assaults is being investigated.


 Manhattan

A man was caught smoking synthetic marijuana in a stolen car in the West Village, cops said.

Latee Brockington, 24, was puffing the synthetic greens in a stolen 2014 Toyota Camry on Christopher Street near Bleecker Street at 4 a.m. on Sept. 12, according to police.

An officer on patrol saw real pot lying in plain sight in the auto and took Brockington into custody, cops said.

Brockington was hit with a slew of charges, including felony grand larceny, possession of stolen property and possession of marijuana.

He was also cited for not having a driver’s license.


A burglar ransacked ­offices at a Carnegie Hill church, authorities said.

Police said the suspect broke into The Brick Church on East 92nd Street at 6:45 p.m. on Aug. 29 and rifled through offices. However, he felt nothing was worth taking and left empty-handed.


 Staten Island

A pill-popping lowlife stole his grandfather’s savings bonds worth more than $99,000 to fund a drug habit, trips to Atlantic City, and a Woodrow apartment, court papers allege.

Robert Riley, 25, allegedly swiped an envelope containing 66 bonds from his 85-year-old grandpa’s bedroom in February, the Criminal Court complaint states.

Riley told investigators he expected the envelope to contain cash and was surprised to find the bonds totaling $99,013.20, according to the documents.

In May, Riley opened an account at the Santander Bank in Eltingville and deposited the octogenarian’s bonds, the complaint claims.

Riley allegedly blew the money on two cars, a new apartment, sojourns to Atlantic City, as well as his oxycodone habit, the complaint states.

He was charged with grand larceny, criminal possession of stolen property and petit larceny.

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