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102nd Precinct

Lexus Corpse Identified

Police and the city Medical Examiner's Office have identified a body found in a plastic bag inside a Lexus SUV as 40-year-old Brooklyn resident Yuriy Grinchuk.

A pair of Sanitation workers made the grisly discovery at about 10:30 a.m. on May 5, when they went to check on an abandoned car near a heavily wooded section of Forest Park and spotted a foot sticking out of a plastic bag in the back of the Lexus.

Police sources said the black 1999 Lexus was ticketed by a city Traffic Agent seven days earlier for obstructing street cleaning on Park Lane South.

Sources said the Traffic Agent did not notice the foot or the body when the ticket was issued.

The Sanitation workers called police, who found a note with the body, saying Grinchuk was "a rat," police sources said.

The sources said Grinchuk was arrested on February 18 for allegedly making a telephone death threat to a Staten Island man.

He was arrested again on February 19 for allegedly assaulting a former girlfriend near the East Third Street, Brooklyn apartment they once shared.

Police are awaiting the results of tests by the Medical Examiner's office to determine the exact cause of death.

109th Precinct

Bumbling Robbery Trio Busted Police sources said a trio of 19-year-old thieves got spooked during a robbery at a Flushing garage on May 6 and tried to flee the scene, leaving behind their loot and a sack of stolen car parts.

Cops said the thieves were spotted at about 2 a.m., hauling car parts from the garage on Booth Memorial Avenue at 163rd Street.

"They got spooked and bolted," said a police source. "They took off so fast, they left a sack of car parts and tools worth more than $2,500."

Sources said the trio didn't get far and each confessed as soon as they were nabbed by police.

110th Precinct

Pawn Shop Pilfered By Clerk

Cops arrested a worker at a Jackson Heights pawnshop on May 6 and charged him with swiping more than $6,000 worth of jewelry, police said.

Police arrested Daniel Cedeno, 27, a cashier at 82nd and Roosevelt Pawn and Jewelers, after the store owner stumbled on a theft and discovered forged records at the shop.

Police said a woman pawned seven 18-carat bracelets and a diamond ring at the shop in November 2007. When she returned in March to reclaim the items, she was told that shop records showed the items had been sold for $829, police said.

When the shop owner took a closer look at the records he discovered they had been forged and determined that Cedeno was the culprit, police said.

Cedeno was arraigned in Queens Criminal Court on charges of grand larceny.