Man arrested for stalking
GUILDERLAND Police arrested a Queens man on Sunday for stalking, after a woman reported he was following her car.
Georgio Shinas, 20, of 50-32 Thirty-first Ave., 3-D, Woodside, N.Y., told police that he was trying to get the woman to pull over.
At 5 a.m. on Sunday, as the woman was driving to work on Western Avenue, she noticed a man in a red Pontiac following her, Detective John Tashjian told The Enterprise.
A patrol car stopped the Pontiac and found that Shinas, its driver, had an "imitation handgun" near the driver’s seat, Tashjian said. He had two more weapons pellet pistols made to look like handguns in his car, Tashjian said.
"He said he wanted to see if she’d pull over," Tashjian told The Enterprise. "He’d act like a cop."
Asked why, Tashjian said, "Who knows what his motives were""
Shinas was not wearing a uniform and police say the woman did not know him.
He was arrested for fourth-degree stalking and fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon, both misdemeanors. He was then remanded to Albany Countys jail without bail.