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Didn’t Your Mama Teach You Nothing? It’s “Put Out Or Get Out,” Not “Put Out And Get Out” . . .

Anyone will tell you that when consorting with jailbait down at the park, it’s considered proper form to offer her a ride home afterwards:

As it is, Christopher Coppinger’s callousness after a 13-year-old girl performed a sex act in a South Beach park contributed to his prison sentence.

Coppinger, 18, of Bay Terrace, was sentenced yesterday to 10 months in jail under a plea agreement last month in which the troubled teen admitted to attempted second-degree criminal sexual act.

He and his friend Jason Talanquines, 18, were caught with two underage girls at Ocean Breeze Park in August.

Justice Leonard P. Rienzi granted Coppinger youthful offender status, which frequently indicates probation. The judge based the jail term on Coppinger’s criminal record, the youth of the two girls and “your failure to give a ride.”

. . .

Prosecutors charged that Coppinger and Talanquines picked up the two adolescents at the Grasmere train station, then drove to a wooded area in Ocean Breeze Park, where the girls serviced them. When Coppinger refused to drive the girls home and left them at the park, the 13-year-old girl called 911 and reported the incident.

Posted: December 5th, 2007 | Filed under: Jerk Move, Law & Order, Staten Island

Yeah, Yeah — I’ll Get To It Eventually

There’s a new transparency in police investigations these days:

Since Thanksgiving week, a luxurious sport utility vehicle disfigured by bullet holes has been blocking a bus stop on Union Street in the Carroll Gardens section of Brooklyn, several local residents and store owners said.

The driver’s side seats of the Audi Q7 are draped with black and yellow plastic, the rear window is shattered, and it appears that some dried blood is on the back seat. The four bullet holes on the driver’s side back door are marked with police evidence labels.

“Something like this doesn’t make residents feel safe,” Nate Shaw, 38, who had previously noticed the vehicle while walking with his 4-year-old daughter, said. “My two sons would probably think it’s cool, but I think having to explain it got shot up would be worrisome,” a 40-year-old carpenter from Carroll Gardens, Greg Paul, said. “Why doesn’t the police department have more space to store shot vehicles?”

. . .

“An officer drove it into the spot and it has been there for at least two weeks,” the manager of Francesco Pizzeria, which has large windows facing onto the street where the car is parked, Anthony Caravello, said.

The vehicle was confiscated in connection with a homicide investigation, police said.

On October 6, an unknown number of suspects riding in the Audi shot at Andre Garcia in front of 66 Sullivan St. in the Red Hook section of Brooklyn, which shares a police precinct with Carroll Gardens.

Garcia, 24, who was shot multiple times in the stomach, was pronounced dead at the scene, police said.

Posted: December 5th, 2007 | Filed under: Brooklyn, Law & Order, There Goes The Neighborhood

My Time Is Also Money, So Don’t Get Any Ideas, Perps-To-Be — When You Steal Our Subway, You Steal From Everyone!

The “power problem” plaguing Lexington Avenue trains during rush hour last night was on account of this nitwit:

Subway service on the East Side was disrupted for nearly two hours yesterday after an above-ground thief turned tunnel rat to make his getaway.

The thug robbed a street-cart food vendor on 116th Street and Lexington Avenue and dashed into the nearby No. 6 station at about 3:45 p.m., sources said.

He then ran straight for tunnel and headed uptown, as cops ran toward him on the tracks from 125th Street, the sources said.

Local and express service was halted between 96th and 125th streets during a manhunt that included two K9 units.

Yet the perp still got away. There are at least three levels of tunnels in that stretch of subway, and he managed to “get lost” in them.

Service was restored a little before 6 p.m.

Posted: October 26th, 2007 | Filed under: Jerk Move, Law & Order

The “But I Have Black Friends” Defense Works . . .

Hate crime charges dropped in Staten Island case:

Hate-crime charges were dropped yesterday against two white men accused of attacking a black man in Mariners Harbor earlier this week, as several black teenagers appeared in Stapleton Criminal Court to vouch for the suspects.

Police arrested Daniel Avissato, 24, of Westerleigh and Mark Vincent Maleto, 21, of Elm Park on a slew of charges, including assault as a hate crime, but the men were arraigned only on second-degree gang assault charges yesterday.

. . .

Attorney John Murphy, in his defense of Avissato, called on several black teens in the courtroom to vouch for Avissato’s character.

“The accused young man I represent is not a racist,” Murphy said in a prepared statement he distributed outside the courthouse. “The anecdotal evidence of his living and working in harmony with diversity is overwhelming.”

Murphy called upon a 14-year-old boy, who declined to give his name, to recount a time when Avissato offered the teen a ride during bad weather.

Posted: October 21st, 2007 | Filed under: Law & Order, Staten Island

In Case You Were Wondering Why Some Cops Seem So Jacked . . .

After authorities raided a Bay Ridge pharmacy that allegedly sold steroids, it turns out that some NYPD officers were customers:

As many as 30 cops were rounded up last night and ordered to an NYPD medical facility in Queens to take drug tests as part of a steroid investigation that has rocked the department, sources told The Post.

Six officers are under investigation for alleged steroid use after a raid on a Brooklyn pharmacy yielded information indicating they may have received improper prescriptions, police said in an official statement.

The statement said no officers have been arrested and no arrests are anticipated.

But the cops sent for drug tests will be placed on modified duty. They are assigned to precincts in Brooklyn and Staten Island, and one is a high-ranking member of the NYPD, The Post’s sources said.

The investigation stems from a Monday-night raid on Lowen’s Pharmacy in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn.

Posted: October 17th, 2007 | Filed under: Brooklyn, Law & Order
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