Queens

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Cops are searching for the husband of a special-ed teacher who was found beaten to death in the couple’s Astoria apartment Thursday, police said yesterday.

Officials released a photo of Jordan Hawes (pictured), 32, whom they want to question in the death.

The body of his wife, Tara Hawes, 33, was found in a pool of blood inside the couple’s second-floor unit on 30th Street at 8:30 p.m. Thursday

It was unclear how long she had been dead, investigators said, adding that there was evidence of blunt-force trauma to the head.

Neighbors said they had often heard Hawes and her husband arguing.

The building’s superintendent, Brian Besi, 45, confirmed that.

“All the time you hear them yelling,” he said.

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A con artist not only scammed $3,200 from a woman in East Elmhurst — but added injury to insult by throwing the victim out of a moving car, authorities said.

Tammy Hogan, 45, approached the woman on Liberty Avenue and Lefferts Boulevard on Oct. 22 and told her that she had found a bag full of cash and was willing to split it — if the woman showed good faith by ponying up some cash of her own, cops said.

The woman went home, returned with her money and got into a car with Hogan and two accomplices — and was promptly ripped off and shoved out as the car sped off, the cops added.

Hogan, who was collared on Jan. 25, was charged with grand larceny, robbery and reckless endangerment.

She was being held last night on $20,000 bail, according to a spokesperson for Queens DA Richard Brown.

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A Queens prostitute allegedly slashed a john in the neck with a boxcutter.

Shadreka Barnes, 21, attacked her 45-year-old client at the intersection of 91st Street and 89th Avenue in Woodhaven at about 12:30 p.m. on Dec. 15, authorities said.

The john was treated at Jamaica Hospital and released.

Barnes was arrested on Jan. 21 and charged with assault and criminal possession of a weapon, according to a spokesperson for DA Brown.

Manhattan

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A man flung a woman to the ground and snatched her purse as she exited a subway station, cops said.

The victim, 30, was walking from the No. 1 train near 207th Street and 10th Avenue in Inwood at about 5:20 a.m. Tuesday when she was grabbed from behind.

The man, who allegedly fled with some of her property, was described as in his 20s, 5-foot-10 to 6 feet tall and wearing a dark military jacket.

Brooklyn

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A man looking for love in some very wrong places found himself attacked by a man passing himself off as a woman on a dating Web site, authorities said.

The unidentified 20-year-old victim had met Qualiek Springs, 27, online under the presumption that Springs was a woman, cops said.

The two hit it off and made their way to Springs’ Bushwick apartment, on Wilson Avenue, on Jan. 30 — but the victim tried to flee shortly after discovering Springs’ true gender, the cops added.

That’s when Springs allegedly held him at bay with a barbecue fork and proceeded to take an MP3 player and $200 in cash from his pockets.

Then Springs and his partner, Sharif Nickens, 30, dragged the man out of the apartment and, during a struggle, stabbed him in an arm with the fork, according to the police.

Springs and Nickens were arrested on charges of robbery, assault and possession of a deadly weapon.

The Bronx

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Authorities are delaying the prosecution of the mother of a 6-year-old boy who died after he was allegedly fed a dose of methadone by mistake.

Police arrested Raquel DeLeon, 36, and she was charged with reckless endangerment on Monday, cops said.

But a spokesman for the Bronx District Attorney’s Office said the case had been put off pending an autopsy’s result.

DeLeon, whose arrest record includes two drug-related priors, allegedly hid her methadone in a bottle of DayQuil in the family’s East 147th Street apartment in the South Bronx, police said.

When little Carlos Rios Jr., fell ill on Jan. 28, his father gave him a teaspoon of the liquid, believing it to be cough medicine, police said.

The boy soon became unresponsive. He died at a local hospital.