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Staten Island

He was caught red-handed — literally.

A bank robber who threatened a Port Richmond teller by saying he had a gun made off with nearly $ 2,000 — but was nabbed three blocks away when cops saw him spattered in red from an exploding dye pack that was attached to the cash, police sources said.

Charles Calhoun, 51, walked into the Richmond County Savings Bank on Castleton Avenue at around 11:30 a.m. Monday, allegedly passed the teller a demand note, said he had a gun and robbed the bank of $ 1,761, the sources said.

Cops on “vertical patrol” in an apartment building on Henderson Avenue three blocks away found him on a staircase landing at about 12:45 p.m. and were immediately tipped off by the red dye.

He was handcuffed and charged with robbery, possession of stolen property and grand larceny.

Queens

Cops arrested the heartless brute who fatally shot his girlfriend in their Elmhurst apartment as the woman’s 5-year-old son cowered in another room, authorities said.

Ronaldo Perez, 33, confronted Carolina Cobena, 29, in the 52nd Avenue apartment at around 1:50 a.m. Tuesday after a long night of drinking with his pals, cops said.

Perez allegedly came home drunk and grabbed a stack of cash and a 9mm firearm from a closet before the duo started arguing, police said.

Cobena then slapped the cash out of his hand before Perez unloaded two bullets into her head, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said.

Perez later told investigators he was kneeling down to pick up the cash with one hand and accidentally discharged the weapon with the other, sources said.

Cobena was rushed to Elmhurst Hospital Center, where she was pronounced dead, authorities said.

Perez is not believed to be the father of the little boy who was hiding out in another room. The child was left unharmed.

Perez has been charged with murder and criminal use of a firearm, cops said.

Manhattan

A deranged man attacked a 19-year-old woman inside a Midtown bank, cops said.

The victim was withdrawing cash in the ATM vestibule of the TD branch on Second Avenue near East 31st Street at around 9:40 p.m. Nov. 11 when the assailant brutally assaulted her, according to police.

She had just finished her transaction and tried to leave, but the thug had other plans, cops said.

He punched her several times, knocking her to the ground, according to cops.

She suffered minor injuries and the suspect fled empty-handed, police said.

She was treated at an area hospital. but was later released.

Brooklyn

Police have collared the brute who last week shot a 14-year-old girl who was walking home from school with her little sister, cops said.

Rashawn Williams, 19, shot Tamia Tucker in the leg outside a gas station on the corner of Sutter and Euclid avenues at around 3:30 p.m. Nov. 22, cops said.

He was picked up by cops at his Fountain Avenue home at about 7 o’clock Wednesday morning and charged with assault, criminal possession of a firearm and reckless endangerment, cop said.

It wasn’t his only savage crime in recent weeks, authorities said.

On Oct. 29, Williams allegedly assaulted a woman who was walking home with her 46-year-old step-father.

He punched the unsuspecting victim several times, then charged at her stepfather when he tried to intervene, according to police.

Williams was also charged with assault in that incident Wednesday after cops linked him to the earlier attack.

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Two thugs threatened to kill a 15-year-old boy during a robbery in Brownsville, authorities said.

The victim was standing on the platform of the Broadway Junction station waiting for the Manhattan- bound J train when the thieves approached him and threatened to stab him to death if he refused to hand over his iPhone.

The boy did as he was told before the suspects fled the station.

The thieves are believed to be in their late teens,

They were last seen wearing dark hooded sweat shirts.

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