NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
Queens
A teenager was busted yesterday for stabbing another teen whom he believed stole a Play Station game from his friend’s residence during a burglary, authorities said. On Wednesday, Darious Ferguson, 18, and a friend confronted Alvero Arcello, 17, in front of an apartment building at 89-19 171 St. in Jamaica around 11:30 p.m. The three got into an argument over the missing video game and Ferguson’s friend, a man in his late teens or early 20s, started punching Arcello, authorities said. Ferguson pulled a knife and allegedly stabbed Arcello three times in the chest. The assailants fled. Arcello was taken to Mary Immaculate Hospital in critical, but stable condition. After interviewing Arcello at the hospital, 103rd Precinct Detective Carmine Colletta arrested Ferguson at his South Jamaica home on 89th Avenue and 169th Street. He was charged with assault and criminal possession of a weapon.
The bludgeoning death of a man during a robbery on an Astoria street two months ago was ruled a homicide by the medical examiner yesterday. On Feb. 21, a group of unidentified men accosted Allan Jones, 62, on Astoria Boulevard at around 2 a.m. and struck him in the head with a blunt object, possibly a bat, cops said. The attackers fled with his wallet and watch. Jones staggered to and collapsed unconscious at 28th Avenue and 8th Street. He was taken to Elmhurst General Hospital in critical condition with severe brain trauma, police said. He later died from his injuries.
Brooklyn
Cops yesterday said they arrested a suspect who allegedly shot a man twice and sprayed him with mace on a Williamsburg street. Joselito Quinones, 24, was driving a 1992 Bonneville on Grand Street at around 10 p.m. Wednesday while Matthew Sinacone, 21, was cruising behind the wheel of a 1997 black Honda. The drivers got into a traffic dispute and cut each other off, police sources said. They pulled over on Grand Street near Bushwick Avenue and jumped out of their vehicles, cops said. The two men allegedly got into an altercation, but others broke it up. Quinones retrieved a gun and a can of mace from his car and sprayed Sinacone with the chemical, sources said. He then allegedly shot Sinacone twice in the chest. The victim was taken to Woodhull Hospital in critical condition. Quinones fled the scene, but was captured Thursday on attempted murder and weapons possession charges.
A man was killed and two others were injured early yesterday when gunfire erupted in an East New York building, police said. A woman accompanied by her boyfriend went to her former roommate’s apartment at 158 Bradford Ave. around 12:30 a.m. to retrieve some of her belongings. Two men known to the boyfriend showed up and all three pulled guns during an ensuing argument. The three men shot three other men living in the second-floor apartment. Ronald Smith, 27, was hit in the chest, a 23-year-old man was shot in the left arm and a 25-year-old man was shot in the lower back, police sources said. The assailants fled. Smith was pronounced dead at the scene. The 25-year-old was taken to Brookdale Hospital in stable condition. The 23-year-old was treated and released from the same hospital.
Manhattan
A teacher was charged with reckless endangerment yesterday for giving her student 13 birthday punches at PS 15, police said. On March 8, Taisha Gyles, 29, punched an 11-year-old boy 13 times in the arm for his birthday and good luck in a classroom at the Lower East Side school just before lunch break, cops said. Later on, the boy’s mother found bruises on his arm and notified the school and police. Gyles was arrested at 3 p.m. yesterday and given a desk appearance ticket. Police said the punches were not meant to be malicious, but Gyles used poor judgment.

