Queens
A 15-year-old boy was under arrest yesterday after taking a real-looking imitation Uzi (top photo) to Flushing HS, law-enforcement sources said.
A classmate at the Union Street school called his parents after spotting what looked like a machine gun sticking out of Aiden Marin’s backpack at about 9:40 a.m., the sources said.
The parents called an assistant principal, who called cops, and school-safety agents quickly nabbed Aiden. A search of his backpack produced not only the toy gun but also a boxcutter.
There was no indication that he had threatened any of his fellow students.
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A 30-year-old St. Albans man is fighting for his life with a gunshot wound to the back of the head, cops said yesterday.
Shot at 7:05 p.m. Thursday outside his 188th Street home near Liberty Avenue, he was in critical condition last night at Jamaica Hospital.
Investigators last night were seeking both the shooter and a motive.
Brooklyn
A fire believed to have been sparked by a faulty extension cord killed a pregnant 21-year-old in her Prospect Heights apartment early yesterday, the FDNY said.
Choy Barrington’s body was found in her bed on the third floor of 767 Washington Ave. once the 3:30 a.m. blaze had been extinguished.
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A student accidentally dropped a container of sulfuric acid, causing three classmates to suffer minor burns in Meyer Levin JHS 285 yesterday, authorities said.
The caustic chemical splashed on the kids’ feet and lower legs at 9:42 a.m. in a science lab at the East Flatbush school on Beverly Road near Ralph Avenue, the FDNY said.
The students were treated at Kings County Hospital.
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The woman pictured here (middle photo) is wanted for allegedly snatching a 34- year-old woman’s purse in Brighton Beach.
Police say she grabbed the bag at 10 a.m. on May 21 near Brighton Beach Avenue and Brighton 4th Street.
The crook was aided by a male accomplice who distracted the woman during the caper, cops said.
Manhattan
Cops are looking for the cross-dressing hell-raiser pictured here (bottom photo), who allegedly helped trash a Greenwich Village Dunkin’ Donuts.
Mark Wright has been identified as one of the nearly dozen suspects who went on a rampage in the Christopher Street shop on May 16.
The wolf pack tossed chairs and a table, destroyed a coffee machine and caused nearly $2,500 in damage, cops said.
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A man in a clown suit sparked a security scare yesterday morning as he walked across the Manhattan Bridge.
Cops stopped him and a male pal wearing a dress after a motorist reported seeing them wandering aimlessly in the bridge’s Brooklyn-bound roadway at 7 a.m.
Officers found the men on the footpath, breaking no law, and allowed them to continue on their merry way.
Staten Island
An ex-con who stole $85,000 during a violent home invasion 10 years ago has been busted for violating parole, authorities said yesterday.
Kyriakos Evangelou, 28, of Castleton Corners, failed three drug tests, was “disruptive” during treatment counseling and did not make restitution payments on time after gaining his release from federal lockup, court documents say.
He spent 84 months in prison for a 2001 robbery during which he and two accomplices duct-taped and pistol-whipped a jewelry dealer in her Greenridge home before taking a duffel bag full of money from her attic.
Arrested Wednesday at his Merriman Avenue home, Evangelou allegedly told US marshals that his drug relapse was due to difficulties in dealing with stress and insomnia.