Queens
Cops yesterday arrested a man for allegedly setting fire to former City Councilman Eric Gioia’s SUV in his Sunnyside driveway.
Devon Page, 22, pictured in a surveillance-camera image, first ignited trash bins on 39th Avenue at around 5 a.m., Sunday, cops said.
He then lit two each at the corners of 50th Street and 49th Street in the random attack, according to police.
The 2007 Mercury Mariner of the former Queens council member also went up in smoke.
Page was charged with five counts of arson.
Manhattan
A gunman robbed an antique store on the Upper West Side in broad daylight, but dropped some of the loot when good Samaritans chased him, sources said.
The thief was bizarrely wearing a conspicuous yellow and orange reflective vest when he walked into More and More Antiques on Amsterdam Avenue near West 78th Street at around 2:40 p.m. yesterday, stole some diamond jewelry and fled, law-enforcement sources said.
While some witnesses called 911, others chased the man through the streets, and the butter-fingered thief dropped at least some of the jewels at Broadway and 78th Street, the sources added.
The Bronx
It doesn’t pay to be a gangbanger.
A woman who boasted that she is a Latin Queen and her son is a Latin King was so hard up for cash that she went ballistic in a Soundview video store over three extra dollars she wanted for selling a used movie, authorities said.
Jasmin Tevino, 39, walked into GameStop on Westchester Avenue near Stratford Avenue at 7:35 p.m. Aug. 13 with hopes of selling the film for $10, a Criminal Court complaint charges.
When a worker informed Tevino that the store pays only $7 for used videos, the irate hawker picked up electronic credit-card readers, computer equipment, bar-code scanners and a phone and hurled the items at the victim, the records claim.
During her tirade, Tevino allegedly screamed, “What does this bitch want? If this bitch don’t give me what I want, she’s gonna be like that other manager with the glasses. Come outside so I can beat your ass.”
Then she reportedly bragged, “My son is a Latin King and they’re gonna come for you.”
When cops appeared to arrest Tevino, she continued her threats, the court papers state, screaming:
“You’re gonna arrest me in front of my autistic son. You’re going to hell. I’m a Latin Queen and I’m gonna f–k you up. My nieces are gonna go back to the store and f–k her up.”
The clerk was treated at an area hospital for cuts to her head. Tevino was charged with assault, weapon possession, menacing and harassment.
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An off-duty cop, who has been on the force for eight years, was arrested in the northeast Bronx yesterday on charges of choking his girlfriend, police said.
George Sotomayor, 30, was arrested at 1 a.m. over the domestic dispute, sources said. The victim was not injured and Sotomayor was charged with assault and strangulation, the sources added.
Brooklyn
A 22-year-old man was shot dead over a traffic dispute in East New York, law-enforcement sources said.
Dominique Garcia, 22, of Brooklyn, was sitting in the passenger seat of a 2011 Toyota Camry that was approaching Van Siclen and New Lots avenues at 5:30 a.m. Sunday when a group of men stood in the way of the car to let a couple of women pass, the sources said.
The driver honked out of irritation and the two groups exchanged words before one of the pedestrians pulled out a gun and shot Garcia in the head, the sources added.
“They were trash-talking over nonsense,” a law-enforcement source said.
The victim was rushed to Brookdale Hospital, where he died.
Staten Island
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A Port Richmond woman was arrested for taking two months’ worth of unemployment checks while she was working, authorities said.
Dahlia Griffiths, 38, filed for unemployment from June 6 through Aug. 14, 2011, while working as a clerk, a Criminal Court complaint charges.
During the two-month stretch, she collected payments exceeding $1,000, the document states.
Investigators caught up with Griffiths this month and charged her with grand larceny and falsifying business records, according to a spokesman for District Attorney Dan Donovan.