Metro

NYPD Daily Blotter

Staten Island

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An NYPD traffic agent was cuffed in New Springville by the Secret Service for alleged conspiracy and bank fraud, authorities said.

Shola Fakorode, 51, was arrested at about 6 a.m. Wednesday at his home on Fraser Street near Nome Avenue.

He used the alias James Ment to secure a home mortgage and rack up credit-card debt, sources said.

He was released on $200,000 bond after surrendering his travel documents.

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A Tottenville man was arrested yesterday for allegedly possessing child pornography, law-enforcement sources said.

Police raided the home of James Gittins, 34, on Johnson Avenue near Arthur Kill Road at about 7:10 a.m. and seized his desktop computer, four external hard drives and a modem.

Thousands of images were found of mostly 12- to-14-year-olds but also of kids as young as 6 and 7, sources said, adding that he downloaded the pics via Web sites like Kazaa and Limewire.

“I’ve been doing this since I was 15 years old,” he allegedly admitted to investigators.

Gittins, who stands 6-foot-1 and weighs 450 pounds, was charged with eight counts of promoting a sexual performance by a child and eight counts of possessing a sexual performance by a child.

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A cellphone-store employee was busted for fraudulently loading gift cards with cash value at the business in Graniteville, authorities said.

Ahmed Zahrieh, 25, was arrested on Feb. 6 after he allegedly filled four gift cards with $500 each at the shop on Forest Avenue near Heaney Avenue last March.

He allegedly confessed to police that he then used the cards to buy food, cigarettes and gas, court papers state.

Zahrieh was charged with grand larceny and criminal possession of stolen property, according to a spokesman for District Attorney Daniel Donovan.

Queens

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A Manhattan man who allegedly strangled a male acquaintance in an Elmhurst motel room was upset because the victim refused to engage in intercourse, police sources said.

Lleuyel Garcia, 23, of Inwood, met up with Joseph Benzinger, 54, at the Crown Motor Inn Saturday night, police said.

When the older man refused to have intercourse due to HIV fears and offered another sex act, they began to argue, the sources said.

Garcia then allegedly strangled Benzinger with a shirt, stole his wallet and spent some of the cash that he found it held, sources said.

Garcia was charged with murder, robbery and criminal possession of stolen property.

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A 67-year-old man was fatally struck by a car in Woodhaven, police said.

Mostafa Mirbahar, of Jamaica, had been standing in a traffic island at Woodhaven Boulevard near Jamaica Avenue when he stepped into the street and was hit by a 2002 Honda Accord in the right lane shortly before 9 p.m. Wednesday, cops said.

EMS rushed him to Jamaica Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, authorities said.

The driver, 58, stayed at the scene, and no criminality was suspected, police said.

Brooklyn

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A man shot in the head in his Lexus in Crown Heights last week died yesterday, police said.

Lucas Phillip Lee, 34, was found in the driver’s seat of his 2004 luxury car with a single gunshot wound at about 7:05 p.m. on Feb. 7.

He was rushed to Kings County Hospital, where he died.

Lee had not had any previous run-ins with police, and investigators said they had neither a motive nor a suspect.

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A plucky woman fought off a purse snatcher in Sunset Park, police sources said.

The crook approached the 28-year-old from behind on 50th Street near Sixth Avenue at about 10:15 p.m. Tuesday and grabbed a hold of her pocketbook, sources said.

She held on tight, and the thug dragged her, leaving her with scraped knees.

She yelled that the bag contained just documents and no money, and the thief let go and fled on 50th Street, then turned south on Seventh Avenue, sources said.

The woman received treatment at Lutheran Medical Center.

The Bronx

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A man who was in charge of his girlfriend’s infant son in a Soundview home when the boy died has given conflicting accounts of what happened but hasn’t been charged, law-enforcement sources said.

The 24-year-old mother of 5-month-old Jacob Agusto found him unresponsive on a bed at about 2 p.m. Wednesday in the home, cops said.

She gave Jacob CPR and called police, but the little boy died.

A police source said her beau has a lengthy rap sheet riddled with charges of violence and has been arrested at least 50 times.

In the past, he has been busted on charges of assault, robbery and weapon possession, among other allegations.

Police are waiting for the results of a postmortem brain scan that could detect evidence of shaken-baby syndrome.

The medical examiner is to determine whether the death was a homicide.