Looks like the Staten Island Ninja is back and unfortunately still using his honed ninja skillz to practice the dark arts.

The Ninja Burglar — Staten Island’s most nefarious thief and the borough’s top news story of 2007 — waited about one day into the New Year before striking again, hitting a home in Castleton Corners and making off with about $20,000 in jewelry.

“It’s being incorporated into the burglary pattern and it looks to be the same guy,” said a law enforcement source.

However, while multiple police sources close to the case said the Melhorn Road job was the work of the Ninja Burglar. A police spokesman refused to confirm that fact yesterday.

The bold bandit struck 173 Melhorn Rd. sometime between Wednesday and 7:30 a.m. Friday, at which time Dr. Shahabuddin Ahmad and his family discovered the robbery, according to the source.

“I feel afraid, insecure, violated and depressed … very depressed,” said Dr. Ahmad.

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