A New York man was arrested — and allegedly confessed — to fatally choking a cabbie over a pay dispute and dumping the victim’s body near a local reservoir, authorities said.

Santos Vasquez-Ramirez was taken into custody Friday at his home in upstate Pawling in connection to the Dec. 1 murder of Aurelio Zhunio-Orbez , the Putnam County Sheriff’s office announced Saturday.

Vasquez-Ramirez, 27, didn’t know the victim personally but had used his services once before, authorities said.

He was picked up by the 66-year-old cabbie in Brewster when the two apparently feuded and Zhunio-Orbez was killed, police said.

Vasquez-Ramirez then allegedly dragged the body into the woods nearby, with the remains found floating in the Croton Falls Reservoir the same day, authorities said.

“He drove him

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