By Latoya Hicks and Zachary Gelnaw-Rubin

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The jury found a Brooklyn man guilty today in a murder trial that had been mired in charges of jury tampering and witness intimidation.

Even as the jury of four men and eight women was deliberating, a woman was arrested in the courtroom for allegedly approaching one of the jurors and attempting to sway her vote in favor of the defendant, Tyreek Maynard, 22.

The judge cleared the courtroom after a representative of the Brooklyn DA entered and told the bailiff that one of the jurors had been tampered with. The juror had complained that, after court the previous day, two women had followed her into the subway and repeatedly whispered in her ear to vote not guilty.

When the public was allowed back into the courtroom, the woman was identified sitting by the defense and led away by a detective. She has been charged with jury tampering, a court official said.

“I will not have my jury be intimidated,” said Justice Guy N. Mangano, the presiding judge.

Maynard was found guilty of murder in the second-degree for killing two men. Court records show that the first murder occurred on Oct. 10 in front of a Bedford-Stuyvesant housing project. Maynard, accompanied by a friend, Marvin Blake, 21, approached Tony Jones, 27, with whom there had been a previous dispute. Blake had thought there would be a fist fight but was surprised when Maynard pulled a gun and shot Jones nine times.

Maynard then disappeared for two weeks and resurfaced on Oct. 27 when he approached Blake on the street in Prospect Lefferts Garden. Fearing his friend would “snitch,” Maynard shot and killed Blake in broad daylight, said prosecutors.

Maynard was also charged with two counts of intimidating a witness. Justice Mangano said that two witnesses, Augustin Jamie and Alecia Alfonso, did not show up to court because Maynard had threatened them. He was acquitted of those charges.

Maynard was scheduled to be sentenced April 12.