Brooklyn
A traffic agent issuing a parking ticket was pelted with green peppers by the vehicle’s owner in Borough Park, authorities said yesterday.
The agent issued the summons because the car was blocking the crosswalk at 13th Avenue and 38th Street at around 10:40 a.m. Sunday, cops said.
Suddenly, Ale Elawar, 43, dashed out of a nearby store and screamed, “You are not putting a f- – -ing ticket on my vehicle,” sources said.
Elawar then dumped a container of peppers on the agent’s jacket and drove off , authorities say.
The agent gave Elawar’s registration information to a cop, who contacted the pepper head.
Two days later, Elawar surrendered and was charged with menacing and obstructing governmental administration.
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Some people are cranky when they first wake up, but Derek Harrison takes the cake.
Harrison, 34, attacked a cop who woke him up aboard a subway at the Flatbush Avenue station on the No. 2 line in Midwood at around 12:40 a.m. Tuesday, police said.
Harrison, who had been lying across several seats, punched the cop in the face after the officer asked him for ID, sources said.
As the two men scuffled, several officers jumped in and restrained Harrison, who was charged with assault and resisting arrest. No one was seriously injured.
Manhattan
One of two women has been arrested for pepper- spraying a taxi driver during a Harlem robbery last year, police sources said yesterday.
Crystal White, 23, and a female accomplice sprayed the 21-year-old man in the eyes as he talked on his cell inside his cab at Morningside Drive and West 125th Street at 1:25 a.m. Sept. 22, sources said.
The duo then snatched his phone and ran away, but White was tracked down Tuesday and charged with robbery and assault, cops said. The victim suffered minor injuries.
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A fork-wielding drunk was busted after threatening to kill his ex-girlfriend in her Upper East Side apartment, police sources said yesterday.
Christopher Curry, 46, got into a heated argument with the woman in her East 80th Street apartment near First Avenue at 1:50 a.m. Monday, cops said.
Curry allegedly choked the woman, then threatened to kill her with the fork. The victim quickly called 911 and Curry was arrested on charges of menacing and weapon possession.
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Police are searching for the lower Manhattan bank bandit pictured above.
The suspect, a white man in his 40s, made a cash demand to a teller in the TD Bank on Hudson and Reade streets at around noon Saturday.
The teller forked over cash and the robber fled.
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A home health-care attendant wasn’t feeling so hot when she got busted for buying sexy lingerie with her employer’s stolen credit card last month, authorities said yesterday.
Amanda Austin, 23, allegedly took the Visa card from the 86-year-old woman while staying at the victim’s East End Avenue apartment on Dec. 14.
Austin went on a shopping spree at Victoria Secret, Rite Aid and a hair product store, a court complaint said.
When the victim received her statement, she discovered the unauthorized charges and contacted police.
Austin was arrested Jan. 24 and charged with grand larceny, a spokeswoman for the DA’s Office said.
Staten Island
A Rosebank man was busted after he sucker punched a cop during a run-in on a New Dorp street.
Ross Norris, 20, was standing outside a shop on New Dorp Lane near South Railroad Avenue, shortly before 7 p.m. on Tuesday when the cop asked for identification.
Norris allegedly flew into a rage and punched the officer in the head. He then tried to toss him to the ground, sources said.
Other officers joined in the melee and restrained Norris after a brief struggle, the sources said.
Norris was charged with assault, harassment and resisting arrest, said a spokesman for Staten Island DA Daniel Donovan.
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Two drug dealers were busted for selling prescription painkillers to an undercover cop in new Springville, cops said yesterday.
One of the suspects, Elizabeth Palmieri, 38, first met with the officer in her home on Bleeker Place near Richmond Avenue on Jan. 16. She allegedly sold the cop two Oxycodone pills, court papers revealed.
Last Saturday, Palmieri and her friend, John Mazzola, 40, met with the same cop in her home and sold the officer more pills, sources said. Police arrested the pair on Tuesday.