The 32-year-old man showed up to a meeting on Pine Lake Drive with Kayla Gries, 17, of Malverne, who said she was seeking a job from the victim at 2 a.m. Sunday, police said.

But when Gries walked up to the victim’s car, the driver noticed a man standing near the car, became afraid and drove off, police said. Jason Thurmond, 27, of New Hyde Park, allegedly fired a gunshot into the victim’s car, striking the front dashboard, police said.

Two other suspects were also involved in the robbery try, including 24-year-old Michael Thompson of Lakeview and 27-year-old Jamal Davis of Hempstead, police said.

The victim was not injured and police said they recovered the gun.

All four suspects were charged with attempted robbery.  Gries, Thurmond and Davis were additionally being charged with conspiracy.  Thurmond was also charged with criminal possession of a weapon.

They are scheduled to be arraigned at First District Court in Hempstead.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was arrested Friday night and is suspected of bombing the Boston Marathon. (Photo: FBI)

Federal authorities have charged the Boston Marathon bombing suspect with using a weapon of mass destruction, which is punishable by death, but didn’t deem him an enemy combatant as some had urged.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is expected to be arraigned Monday in his room at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, where authorities have said he is listed in serious condition.

“Today’s charges bring a successful end to a tragic week for the city of Boston and for our country,” said Attorney General Eric Holder. “We’ve once again shown that those who target innocent Americans and attempt to terrorize our cities will not escape from justice.”

The 19-year-old Cambridge man was captured Friday night following a five-day manhunt that ended when the teen was found hiding in a boat in Watertown, Mass.

His 26-year-old brother, Tamerlan, was killed in a shootout with police after the duo allegedly gunned down an MIT police officer and carjacked a driver Thursday night.

The bombings last Monday at the Boylston Street finish line left three dead and more than 200 wounded. Investigators have said the suspects made the bombs out of pressure cookers filled with nails, ball bearings and other projectiles.

Rep. Peter King (R-Seaford) joined fellow Republicans in calling on President Barack Obama to have the surviving Tsarnaev as an enemy combatant, meaning he would be tried in military tribunal instead of civilian court.

“The accused perpetrators of these acts were not common criminals attempting to profit from a criminal enterprise, but terrorists trying to injure, maim, and kill innocent Americans,” King said in a joint statement. “The suspect, based upon his actions, clearly is a good candidate for enemy combatant status.”

Tsarnaev, a native of the Chechnya region in southern Russia, was granted U.S. citizenship in September. Massachusetts has outlawed the death penalty, but it is still allowed under federal law. He could also be sentenced to life in prison without parole.

Carmen Ortiz, U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts, said she could not disclose what the teen may have said to investigators except to say that they always “seek to elicit all the actionable intelligence and information we can from terrorist suspects.”

Rich Sturges, a 41-year-old Boston school teacher originally from Malverne, was about five blocks from the scene during his second running of the nation’s oldest marathon when the bombs went off second apart.

“It was very stunning,” he told the Press. “It’s not going to be back to normal for a while.”

Frances Colvin

A civilian Nassau County police service aide struck a plea deal with prosecutors to complete 21 hours of community service to settle a charge that she harassed a romantic rival for months.

Frances Colvin accepted an adjournment in contemplation of dismissal Tuesday at First District Court in Hempstead, meaning she doesn’t have to admit guilt and the case will be sealed if she doesn’t get arrested again anytime soon.

“You complete your community service, don’t get in trouble for six months, it’ll be like it didn’t happen,” Judge David Sullivan told Colvin as she signed an order of protection requiring her to stay away from the victim.

“There was no overt act of harassment,” said her attorney, Gerard McCloskey. “I think if we went to trial it would have been dismissed.”

Authorities had arrested the 56-year-old Malverne woman in November when she was accused of using her access to internal police systems to look up the victim’s 2010 arrest for driving while intoxicated after Colvin learned that she and the victim dated the same man.

The man at the center of the love triangle was never identified. Sullivan read the victim’s name in court, but the Press is not identifying her.

“Call the police. I am the police,” Colvin allegedly told the victim when Colvin confronted her and their apparent co-boyfriend in March 2011, the victim wrote in her statement to police.

The victim told investigators that shortly after the initial confrontation, her employer drug tested her and wouldn’t say if it was because of a phone call, but the tester “gave me a look indicating yes,” the documents read.

During another confrontation months later, Colvin allegedly told the victim that Colvin and the victim’s boyfriend were still dating, according to the documents. Then, in December 2011, Colvin allegedly contacted the victim’s ex-boyfriend and told him about the victim’s legal troubles.

“I am worried about her coming to my home or damaging my car,” the victim states in her deposition. “I am installing a security camera because of her. I am also concerned about Frances calling my job and getting me in trouble.”

Police had suspended Colvin, who earned $46,296 this year, from her desk job helping Fourth Precinct officers with paperwork, a source familiar with the case told the Press. McCloskey said she’s still working for the department, but was demoted.

Inspector Kenneth Lack, the the top Nassau police spokesman declined to comment on the case because the “item is still  with our Internal Affairs Unit.”

Holtsville Hal and Malverne Mel both saw their shadows on Groundhog Day, which fell on Saturday this year. That’s counter to both groundhog-in-chief Punksatony Phil and New York City’s Staten Island Chuck, neither of whom saw their shadows, suggesting there will be an early spring.

The “predictions” come as LI’s forecast calls for a chance of light snow Saturday and Sunday with temperatures in the high 20s or low 30s, remaining below freezing through next week when a chance of light snow returns for Tuesday and Wednesday, according to the National Weather Service.

Temps are forecast to warm up slightly to 36 under mostly sunny skies next Thursday before a chance of rain and snow returns Friday.

Malverne Police Chief John Aresta on Fox Business News

Malverne Village chief of police John Aresta, whose uncle was gunned down in the 1993 Long Island Rail Road Massacre, told Fox Business News on Wednesday that he supports gun control laws for personal reasons and because of his position as the village’s top cop.

WATCH ARESTA’S INTERVIEW HERE

“I send my guys out there everyday to protect and serve the people of my village and the state of New York,” he told the show’s host one day after New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s gun control legislation was passed by the state legislature. “We don’t see a reason, and I personally don’t see a reason why anybody would need a 30-round clip or a 10-round clip for an assault rifle.”

The state’s new gun control measures calls for a ban on assault weapons and any magazine that can hold more than seven rounds. It also looks to limit the access of guns to the mentally ill by requiring therapists to report to local mental health officials when they believe a patient may cause serious harm to themselves or others.

When Aresta was asked if this law would have prevented the shooting, he said it’s possible, though conceded that nothing is guaranteed.

“It’s very possible [Colin] Ferguson would’ve been picked up on a mental health issue,” Aresta said.

The semi-automatic handgun Ferguson used in the shooting does not fall under the state ban, but “the magazine clip he used would have been,” Aresta said.

He then added that he’s talked to his officers, many of whom are NRA members, and said even they don’t see the need for assault weapons. When he asked them if they know anybody that goes hunting with an AR-15, they responded, “nobody really does,” Aresta noted.

Critics of New York’s assault weapon ban and the one proposed by President Barack Obama said it won’t curtail gun violence because most gun crimes are carried out with handguns. The police chief also admitted that the village doesn’t see many assault weapons crimes in the village.

Still, he said, “I don’t see a reason why you would have to defend your home like that when police are readily available,” referring to assault weapons because his officers can respond to a 911 call within minutes.

The LIRR shooting on Dec. 7, 1993 claimed the lives of six people and wounded 19.