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NYPD Daily Blotter

Brooklyn

A customer tired of waiting for his food made his displeasure known by smashing his head through a glass display case in a Williamsburg pizzeria, authorities said.

Roman Heczko, 31, ordered a pie at the restaurant on North Seventh Street near Bedford Avenue at about 3:30 a.m. Sunday but soon grew impatient, sources said.

So he picked up a chair and threw it at the store owner before sticking his head through the display case, causing about $10,000 in damage, the sources said.

Charged with assault, criminal mischief, menacing and harassment, Heczko was taken to Woodhull Hospital for treatment of his head wound.

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That’s some friend.

A teenager allegedly stole a pal’s shoes, iPod and cellphone, then punched him twice in the face during an early-morning subway ride through Bedford-Stuyvesant, cops said.

Cyrus Williams, 17, was on the Franklin Avenue shuttle at about 4:30 a.m. Sunday when he demanded whatever was in his 16-year-old companion’s pockets, authorities said.

Williams was taken into custody at the next station after the victim pointed him out.

Manhattan

A 62-year-old man allegedly swiped a laptop and wallet from the Grand Hyatt Hotel banquet hall in Midtown.

Cops said that Ira Goldberg then tried to flee out onto East 42nd Street near Lexington Avenue at about 12:30 p.m. Wednesday but that the laptop’s owner intercepted him at the door and called security.

Goldberg was charged with grand larceny.

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A man broke into an ex-girlfriend’s Upper East Side apartment and viciously assaulted her, authorities said.

Adam Rooks, 22, allegedly kicked in the door to the home on East 88th Street near York Avenue at 11:15 p.m. Wednesday and slammed the woman against the kitchen counter, shattering dishes.

He then flung her to the ground, leaving her temporarily unconscious, authorities said.

Police answering a 911 call arrested Rooks on charges of burglary, criminal mischief and assault.

Queens

Talk about a crappy neighbor.

Sheri Fawcett, 27, was walking her dog at about 8 p.m. on March 10 when they stopped so that the pooch could relieve itself on a lawn in front of a house on Crescent Street near Astoria Boulevard.

When a resident came out of the house and objected, Fawcett allegedly pulled a black pistol from her pants, pointed it at him and asked, “Do you see my gun?”

Later, when cops arrived at Fawcett’s home to investigate, she freely admitted to having marijuana and a gravity knife, according to court papers.

She was charged with menacing, criminal possession of a weapon and drug possession, said a spokeswoman for DA Richard Brown.

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The driver of a stolen vehicle attempted to flee cops by mounting an Elmhurst sidewalk, authorities said.

Nikolaos Tzivas, 26, was spotted speeding on 49th Avenue near 71st Street at 2:55 p.m. on March 11, officials said.

But when officers tried to pull him over, he turned the wrong way on a one-way street and drove on the sidewalk before hitting a tree, officials said.

Tzivas was charged him with reckless endangerment, grand larceny, aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle and speeding.

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Two alleged burglars are under arrest after hitting a Rockaway bodega — for cartons of smokes.

Dovon Seay, 38, played the lookout while John Scanlon, 49, broke into the Garden Best Deli on Beach 116th Street at about 1 a.m. on Feb. 27, authorities said.

Scanlon grabbed the cigarettes, and the two fled — not knowing that surveillance cameras had caught the whole thing on videotape, sources said.

Scanlon was arrested on March 9 and Seay on the following day. Both were charged with burglary, criminal possession of stolen property, possession of burglar’s tools and criminal mischief.

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A 19-year-old motorist struck a BMW in Ridgewood, then fled from the scene — only to be quickly arrested by a cop who had witnessed the accident, authorities said.

Xhuljen Rrahmani hit the car at the intersection of Greene and Woodward avenues at 12:55 p.m. on March 10, cops said.