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* A Dyker Heights man has been arrested for beating his 85-year-old mother with a pipe in April, law enforcement sources said yesterday.

Gerald Gergiullo, 45, argued with his mother, Rosa, in their apartment on 84th Street near 15th Avenue on April 19.

During the dispute, Gergiullo allegedly punched his mother in the head several times. He then grabbed a pipe and smashed her in the back, sources said.

The woman was treated for back pain and minor bumps to the head. Gergiullo was arrested Wednesday and charged with assault, menacing, harassment and weapons possession.

It was not immediately clear why it took so long to arrest him.

* A Greenpoint man was arrested on charges he hit another man in the face with a bottle, law enforcement source said.

Around 3 a.m. on June 19, Camilo Torres tried to engage Adrian Wysocki in conversation on Meserole Avenue near Lorimer Street, but Wysocki refused to talk to him.

Torres, 20, then walked over to his friends standing nearby and began to point menacingly at Wysocki, also 20, sources said.

Torres then allegedly tossed a bottle at Wysocki, hitting him in the face and causing a deep cut from his forehead to his nose.

Wysocki was released after treatment at Bellevue Hospital.

Torres surrendered to police at the 94th Precinct on Thursday and was charged with assault, menacing and harassment.

* The body of a 43-year-old woman was found yesterday in her Bedford-Stuyvesant apartment, police said.

Elizabeth Gonzalez was found in her home on Lewis Avenue near Broadway around 9 a.m. Investigators were trying to determine how she died and are awaiting the results of an autopsy by the medical examiner.

* A city sanitation worker was arrested on a petit larceny charge near Bensonhurst Park, police said yesterday.

Dennis Kelly, 56, was grabbed by police on Bay Parkway near Cropsey Avenue in Bensonhurst around noon on Thursday. Police would not provide further details.

THE BRONX

* A Mott Haven man was arrested after he shot and critically wounded another man outside a city housing project that is a known drug location, police sources said.

The 35-year-old victim argued with Joseph Crespo, 20, outside the Jackson Houses on Courtlandt Avenue around 10 p.m. Wednesday.

During the fight, Crespo pulled a pistol and shot the man in the groin, cops said. The wounded man was taken to Lincoln Hospital.

Crespo was charged with attempted murder, assault and gun possession.

STATEN ISLAND

* A motorcycle rider was killed after he collided with a car in Pleasant Plains, police said.

Sulajman Taipovic, 31, was riding a 1999 Suzuki north on Burton Avenue at around 7 p.m. Thursday, when he collided with a 2002 Mercedes-Benz heading south on the same street, cops said.

The victim was taken to Staten Island University Hospital, where he died. No arrests were made, and no summonses were issued.

QUEENS

* Twin brothers were arrested yesterday after they triggered a bomb scare aboard a Queens subway, police said.

Peter Barrero, 40, and his brother, Paul, were in a Queens-bound A train heading to Broad Channel station at around 10 a.m., when one of them said something about a bomb, cops said.

A straphanger overheard the chilling remark and told a transit employee, who immediately notified cops when the train pulled into Broad Channel in Far Rockaway.

Police arrested the twins after a struggle, and charged them with disorderly conduct and resisting arrest.

Cops also found a package on the brothers and called in the Bomb Squad. When police opened the package, they discovered phones, Walkmans and batteries taped together, but no explosives.

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