STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — A Tottenville man was arrested on domestic abuse charges just two days after police seized a cache of guns, including an assault rifle, that was being transported out of his home, according to the criminal complaints.

Edward Florea, 33, an information technology director at a firm in Charleston, faces felony charges of strangulation and criminal possession of a weapon, in addition to a multitude of misdemeanors in connection with both incidents.

The alleged abuse incident actually occurred more than a month before the weapons seizure on June 14, even though it was officially reported afterward.

Florea's 27-year-old wife said, out of fear for her life, that she did not officially report the alleged abuse charge until June 15, after she was assured all of the weapons had been removed from the home she shared with her husband and their 19-month-old daughter, according to a domestic incident report.

Following a misunderstanding over a cup of water on May 7, Florea allegedly choked his wife, who was sitting on the bed with their child on her lap, until she lost consciousness, according to the criminal complaint.

Florea's wife told police that when she regained consciousness, he was standing over her with a pocket knife in his hand.

"I will f****** kill you both," Florea said, according to the wife's account in the complaint. "First her (the child) and then you."

WEAPONS BUST

The weapons charges stem from an incident on the night of June 14, in which police who were patrolling the area observed Florea and two others taking what appeared to be gun cases out of his Bethel Avenue home and placing them into the trunk of a silver Audi sedan, according to the criminal complaint.

Florea's alleged accomplices, Ioana Florea and Jay Martin, are his 55-year-old mother and her 58-year-old boy friend. They drove off in the Audi after it was loaded with more than a dozen weapons, according to the complaint.

Police stopped the couple shortly after they pulled out of the home's driveway, in the vicinity of Ellis Street and Arthur Kill Road, and recovered 13 weapons, ranging from air pistols to a semiautomatic shotgun, the complaint states.

MORE GUNS, AMMO FOUND

Officers then returned to Florea's home, where they found an additional assault weapon and 187 rounds of ammunition in the attic, according to the complaint. They found another 175 rounds of ammo in an open safe inside a second floor closet and 20 more rounds on top of a computer server in the living room, the complaint states.

A police review found that neither Florea, nor his mother or her boyfriend, were authorized to possess any of the assault weapons, rifles or ammunition that police found.

All three were arrested and charged with third-degree criminal possession of a weapon, five counts of unlawful possession or disposition of rifles or shotguns and eight counts of unlawfully possessing firearms. Florea is additionally charged with eight counts of possession of ammunition.

He also faces charges of second-degree strangulation, criminal obstruction of breathing, third-degree assault, second-degree menacing, fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon, endangering the welfare of a child and second-degree harassment for the prior domestic incident.

Florea remains in jail on $100,000 bond or $50,000 cash. His mother and her boyfriend are both free after posting $1,000 bail.

The three are due back in Stapleton Criminal Court on July 10.

The Staten Island Family Court ordered a temporary full stay-away order of protection against Florea on June 17, on behalf of his wife and young daughter. The 19-month-old is in the care of Florea's wife, a source with knowledge of the case said.