A teacher feuding with her estranged husband was charged yesterday with threatening to poison their young kids with school lab chemicals, police said last night.
Swapna Singavara, 32, of Jamaica, Queens, was charged with extortion for making the threat in order to get $13,000, cops said.
Nobody was hurt in the scheme.
But Singavara told her husband, Subash Charma, 36, of Elmhurst, Queens, that she would use chemicals from the laboratory to poison their children, a 4-month-old girl and a 3 1/2-year-old boy, according to police.
Singavara has taught for four years at Manhattan Borough Academy, an alternative high school on East 29th Street, and has been a Board of Education employee for seven years.
She was arrested at 11:30 p.m. Tuesday near the school, cops said.
Singavara will be removed from classroom duties while the charges against her are pending, said board spokeswoman Karen Crowe.