Queens

* Police are asking for the public’s assistance in finding a Springfield Gardens teen who disappeared three days ago.

Markie Young (pictured), 17, was last seen outside the Queens Children’s Psychiatric Center on Commonwealth Boulevard in Bellerose at 10:15 a.m. Wednesday, authorities said.

According to police sources, Young, who is mentally handicapped, mistakenly thought his foster mother was going to commit him to a psychiatric hospital and fled.

He stands 5-foot-6, weighs about 125 pounds, has brown eyes and black hair and was wearing a black coat, black jeans and black boots.

* A Long Island City student was collared for shoving and choking a school safety agent, authorities said yesterday.

Porsha Newman, 16, allegedly attacked a 44-year- old NYPD agent inside Information Technology HS on 44th Road at 1:45 p.m. Thursday.

Newman was allegedly disrupting her class and her teacher asked her to leave. When the teen refused, the agent intervened.

Once Newman was outside the classroom, she pounced on the agent, pushing and choking her, law-enforcement sources said.

The youth is charged with assault and harassment and faces up to seven years in prison if convicted, a spokeswoman for DA Richard Brown said.

Staten Island

* A children’s day-care van driver with a suspended license was busted after a little boy in his care flew out of his van and crashed onto the pavement in New Brighton, authorities said yesterday.

Larry Roebuck, 40, made a left turn at Richmond Terrace and Jersey Street at 5:30 p.m. Thursday when the 6-year-old tumbled from the moving van, which had no working seat belts, police said.

The boy was taken to Richmond University Medical Center with head injuries, but was expected to make a full recovery.

Roebuck is charged with endangering the welfare of a child and was being held on $1,000 bail.

* Arts, crafts and smoking crack – those are just a few of the hobbies of an Arrochar housewife busted for drug possession, authorities said yesterday.

Candace Budge, 45, was arrested inside her Lily Pond Avenue home after her 18-year-old daughter found a stash of drugs and a crack pipe inside her mom’s purse Thursday, law-enforcement sources said.

Budge’s daughter was looking for cigarettes when she made the disturbing find and immediately called cops.

Police searched the home and found a small metal box containing three crack pipes, three metal rods with drug residue and two more glassine envelopes of crack in a desk where Budge does arts and crafts, the sources said.

Budge is charged with two counts of drug possession, according to a spokesman for DA Daniel Donovan.

* A Brooklyn man professed his love for a highway cop and offered to pray for the officer in an oddball attempt to get out of a DWI rap in Sandy Ground, law-enforcement sources said yesterday.

Manuel Melkoumian, 31, was arrested after he was pulled over for driving 20 mph over the speed limit and tailgating another car on the West Shore Expressway at Clay Pit Road at 3 p.m. Thursday, the sources said.

When the cop approached the Green 2006 Nissan, the officer immediately caught a whiff of marijuana, and noticed Melkoumian had watery, bloodshot eyes and was unsteady on his feet.

That’s when Melkoumian said, “I love you, I love you. I’ll pray for you, I’ll go to church. Please don’t do this to me.”

He is charged with operating a motor vehicle while impaired and possession of marijuana because police found pot on the floor of the car, a DA’s spokesman said.

Bronx

* A man was killed and another injured in a barrage of gunfire in Claremont, police said yesterday.

Sean Dykes, 20, was hit with rifle blasts in the chest on Webster Avenue near East 170th Street at 10:30 a.m. Thursday, cops said.

Dykes allegedly had an argument with an unidentified man who opened fire on him as he ran across Webster Avenue, collapsing a few doors from his home, police said.

A man driving up Webster Avenue was struck by an errant round, which tore through the passenger’s side of his car and grazed his leg, cops said.

Dykes was rushed to St. Barnabas Hospital, where he died 45 minutes later. The injured motorist drove himself to Bronx Lebanon Hospital, where he was treated and released.

* Two teens were nabbed for shooting a man on a Melrose street corner, police sources said yesterday.

Frederick Jones and Angel Quiros, both 17, allegedly pumped a bullet into the 29-year-old victim’s gut at the corner of College Avenue and East 165th Street at 7:35 p.m. Thursday, the sources said.

The injured man was taken to Lincoln Hospital, where he was listed in stable condition. Jones and Quiros were arrested a short time later and cops recovered a loaded revolver, authorities said.

Manhattan

* Detectives are searching for a brazen bandit who swiped more than $1,000 worth of computer equipment from Columbia Presbyterian Hospital last week.

The suspect, a man in his 40s, walked into the hospital’s emergency room on West 168th Street near Broadway, donned a lab coat and walked away with a rolling bin full of electronics at 2 p.m. on March 10, police said.