Blame Robert Moses For This One, Too

Lame — everyone knows that smart criminals take the Queensboro instead:

Three Long Island men were caught with as much as $4,000 worth of drugs on the Triborough Bridge on Sunday — all because they couldn’t come up with the $4.50 toll, cops said.

The trio was busted by MTA Bridges and Tunnels cops while trying to get from the Bronx to Manhattan Sunday afternoon, police said.

When Officer Joshua Landon asked to see the driver’s license so the agency could mail him a bill for the toll, Jesus Cancal, 31, of Syosset, only had an expired learner’s permit — with eight prior suspensions, police said.

While Landon was arresting Cancal, cops Willie Gamble, Greg Vanicky and Ernesto Reyes approached the 1996 Chrysler to search it. That’s when, they said, they spotted passenger George Perez, 29, of Patchogue, frantically fumbling around in the backseat.

When they ordered him out of the car, bags of cocaine allegedly fell from his lap. Stuffed in his pockets were more bags of cocaine, as well as a container of liquid angel dust worth about $300 on the street, police said.

On their way to Rikers — which by the way doesn’t have a toll — they can think about the fact that the MTA raised $281 million from Triborough tolls in 2005 (.pdf).

Location Scout: Triborough Bridge.