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NYPD Daily Blotter

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An off-duty cop was charged with drunken driving after he crashed into a car on the Upper East Side early yesterday, authorities said.

Officer Raymond Dimaria, 35, drove the wrong way down Second Avenue, then smashed into a Nissan Maxima on East 63rd Street at about 1:20 a.m., police sources said.

The 40-year-old driver in the other vehicle was treated at Bellevue for minor injuries, and released.

Dimaria works in the 66th Precinct, and has been with the NYPD since 2005, sources said.

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The suspect in this picture (top, right) snatched a 70-year-old woman’s pocketbook in a St. George restaurant and bar, police said.

He entered Karl’s Klipper, on Bay Street near Borough Place, at 2:10 p.m. March 21 and asked the woman, an employee there, if he could use the phone, authorities said.

He made a call and then grabbed the bag before exiting, cops said.

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The suspects in this surveillance-camera picture allegedly went shopping at a Pathmark in Elm Park with a stolen credit card.

The card’s owner reported it missing before its use in the supermarket on Forest Avenue near Veltman Avenue at about 5:10 p.m. Jan. 11, police said.

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An off-duty Rikers Island correction officer was arrested after a spat with a security guard at an Astoria night spot, law-enforcement sources said.

Ernesto Santos, 31, allegedly flashed his gun in Don Coqui, a restaurant and lounge on 31st Street near 28th Road, at about 1:30 a.m. Friday.

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An unprovoked attack by six punks that left a man requiring 120 stitches has landed a 16-year-old boy in jail.

Harley Burke allegedly approached the gang’s unsuspecting target on Katonah Avenue near East 234th Street at about 9:45 p.m. in Woodlawn on Feb. 22 and snarled, “Fight, my man! Fight, my man!”

He then punched the stranger in the face, and the others jumped in. The man underwent reconstructive facial surgery at a local hospital.

Burke was arrested Wednesday and charged with gang assault, menacing, harassment and disorderly conduct.

The rest of the wolf pack remains on the loose.

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Cops are seeking a missing Claremont woman.

Carmen Nieves, 64, was last seen boarding an uptown BX11 bus at about 4 p.m. Wednesday, police said.

She was wearing a colorful shirt and jeans and was described as 5-foot-2 and about 130 pounds with brown hair and green eyes.

The woman has a history of mental illness, sources said.