TWO ASSAULT SUSPECTS AMBUSH OFFICERS.(CAPITAL REGION)

Byline: MICHELE MORGAN BOLTON Staff writer

East Greenbush Moments after a 16-year-old Nassau girl led police early Tuesday to the secluded gravel pit where she'd just been attacked, the suspect lunged from the shadows, knocked her down and then assaulted the cops.

Then, as officers Joe DeSeve Jr. and Peter Partak worked to restrain the man, they were jumped from behind by an apparent cohort trying to free his friend, police said.

The wooded area covering dozens of inaccessible acres near Columbia Plaza and the Corellis Sand Pits is a popular teenage hangout, town police Chief Chris Lavin said. It's the same location where a town youth was stabbed in …