Manhattan
A Midtown Kmart worker was busted for giving customers more than $120,000 in discounts that he wasn’t authorized to make, officials said.
Franklin Butler, 38, handed out the bogus, blue-light specials on electronics and major appliances at the West 34th Street between May 3 and Aug. 6 of this year.
He was charged with grand larceny, according to a spokeswoman for the Manhattan DA’s Office.
A firebug torched his Upper East Side apartment after he received an eviction notice, authorities said yesterday.
John Gallea, 55, was upset that the landlord of the building on East 94th Street near Second Avenue was set to boot him.
On Aug. 4, he allegedly took a piece of paper, set it on fire and stuck it under his bed before fleeing his third-floor apartment.
The blaze caused “severe fire damage” to the furniture and the walls, as well as smoke and water damage to surrounding apartments, sources said. Gallea was charged with arson.
The Bronx
A man was found shot to death early yesterday in a car in the Eastchester section, police said.
Cops found the unidentified victim, in his late 20s, with a single gunshot wound to the head just after 4 a.m. in a 2007 Nissan Altima in a parking lot on East 233rd Street near Dyre Avenue.
Staten Island
An unlicensed motorist with a blood-alcohol level more than three times the legal limit was nabbed after he slammed into a parked car and passed out, authorities said yesterday.
Frank Schneider, 33, was driving recklessly on Castleton Avenue near North Randall Avenue just before 2 p.m. Saturday when he slammed into the car, police said.
Cops found him passed out, reeking of booze and with an empty bottle of Southern Comfort.
Another sloshed man was busted when he left his baby behind on a Staten Island Railway platform in Stapleton, officials said yesterday. A passer-by noticed Eduardo Garcia passed out on a bench at the station near Bay and Prospect streets early Sunday morning, authorities said.
When the witness woke him, Garcia, whose 8-month-old girl was in a carriage, got up and allegedly walked away.
A wife fatally stabbed her husband last night, and then apparently injured herself as well, sources said.
The violence erupted at 10:40 p.m. at 1636 W. 7th Street, Gravesend, where a couple in their 50s live with their two children, according to neighbors. The man was declared dead at the scene; sources said his wife appeared “delusional.” It was not clear whethe her wounds were inflicted intnetionally.
There were no immediate charges in the case.
A crazed man was arrested after he unleashed a wave of terror outside a Flatbush restaurant, officials said yesterday.
George Gooding, 59, began to fight with patrons outside a West Indian restaurant on Church Avenue at East 35th Street early Sunday, tossing bottles at them and claiming he had a gun, sources said.
The restaurant owner called police, and Gooding fled. About a half-hour later, he showed up again and threatened to kill the owner, but fled again when cops were called, officials said. When he came back a third time, he allegedly slapped the owner in the head and was cuffed by responding officers. Police yesterday arrested a second young woman in the shooting of a cabby in Fort Greene last week. Erica Belgraves, 19, was busted for the attempted murder of Enois Malbranche, 62, police said.
The first suspect April Pierce, 19, was arrested on Sunday. Police are still looking for a third suspect.