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son OTPS TOP a MO EES gomto! 1 'v AN AILING JEWELER whose son was gunned down in the Diamond District in May was cleared of most charges yesterday at his money-laundering trial. A BAREFOOT, SHIRTLESS Bronx man climbed to the top of a Brooklyn Bridge tower and threatened to jump before cops talked him down yesterday, police said. A man sources identified as former psychiatric patient Gustavo Volta, who was wearing only white shorts, was already climbing the cables of the 276-foot-high Manhattan-side tower when a woman called 911 at 12:45 p.m., police said, i By the time Emergency Service Unit cops arrived, Volta had reached the top of the tower, i Cops who scaled the tower talked to him for about 40 minutes, even offering Volta a cigarette. Emergency Service Unit cops rescue and cuff (top 1.) would-be jumper Gustavo Volta on Brooklyn Bridge. r1 it "He was just very distraught, very depressed," said ESU Detective Pete Quinn, one of eight ESU cops who came to the man's rescue.

"He made it clear that if we came anywhere near him, he was going to jump." Around 1:30 p.m., the man walked toward cops and lay down before police hauled him to the street. He was taken to Belle-vue Hospital for evalu- i ation. Cops closed traffic on both sides of the bridge for about 40 minutes. Fernanda Santos and Tony Sclafani 11 I- I Roman Nektalov, 75, who was too sick to attend the verdict session, was acquitted by a jury of conspiracy, money laundering and two other charges after less than a day of deliberations. The jury rejected prosecutors' claim that Nektalov and his slain son, Eduard, sold gold to Colombian drug dealers from their Roman Jewelry store in midtown.

The elder Nektalov, a prominent leader in the Central Asian Jewish community, was convicted on a lesser charge stemming from a diamond sale. No sentencing date was set for Nektalov, who was hospitalized with heart problems during the trial. His lawyer Christopher Chang predicted he would "receive a nonjail sentence." The U.S. attor Trash' baby BY FERNANDA SANTOS DAILY NEWS POLICE BUREAU THE NEWBORN dumped in a Brooklyn garbage can last week apparently was dead before she was callously discarded, a preliminary autopsy showed yesterday. The umbilical cord and placenta were still attached to the tiny corpse when sanitation workers found her in the back of their truck last Friday, wrapped in a black plastic bag.

The girl, named Destiny by the sanitation workers, was a full-term black or Hispanic girl weighing pounds. Cops are now asking the public to help them find her mother and figure out how the girl wound up dead. I i fc BY DAVE GOLDINER DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER ney's office had no immediate comment. Eduard Nektalov, 46, who also was a well-known community activist, was shot and killed on Sixth Ave. on May 20, two months before he and his father were set to go on trial together.

The killing remains unsolved, but cops say they don't believe it stemmed from the money-laundering case. They say it could have been a hit ordered by the Russian mob. Prosecutors claimed Roman Nektalov took $113,000 in bundles of small bills for the tainted gold. But defense lawyers derided the prosecution's star witness as a drug-dealing liar. dgoWinefeditnydaiynewS-Com already dead "It's unfortunate that this child's life never started, but we're determined to honor her memory by discovering what happened to her," Deputy Inspector Kenneth Lindahl, commanding officer of Brooklyn North detectives, said yesterday.

Cops suspect Destiny may have died during childbirth. Her panicked mother then dumped her in a trash can on Bedford-Sruyvesant's Putnam Ave. "We ask any witnesses or anyone with information of any kind to please come forward," Lindahl said. "Do it for the sake of this little girl, so that she can find peace." Anyone with information is asked to call (800) 577-TIPS. fearrtosedt nydaitynews.com derringer and several pistols, and nine knives, police said.

Two floors in the building were ordered evacuated when the cops came upon black gunpowder, two inert grenades and a large amount of ammunition in Lloyd's apartment, police said. The removal of the stash was done under the supervision of the bomb squad. No one was injured during the operation, police said. Lloyd, who is unemployed, is believed to have collected the weapons over time. He was charged with weapons possession.

Tom Raftery 1 I --r7 Rats out hubby's guns stash A MANHATTAN MAN was busted on gun charges after his wife reported him for harassing her and mentioned his weapons cache, cops said yesterday. The 52-year-old woman showed up at the Midtown North stationhouse at 8:30 a.m. Tuesday to file the complaint and answered a standard question about guns in the home, police said. About 11 a.m., cops went to the 11th Ave. address of John Lloyd, 52, in Clinton and seized 23 guns, including three rifles, a.