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HE WAS A reckless speed demon in his Prius. 

The speed limit on Union Turnpike was 35 MPH and on the evenin gof May 24, the 22-year-old man behind the wheel of the 2013 hybrid was punching well past 75 MPH.

As he approached Francis Lewis Boulevard, the motorist blew a red light. That caused him to smash into a 37-year-old man’s Mercedes-Benz G Wagon (who had a steady green), the criminal complaint states. 

The Prius driver ricocheted and clipped a 2023 Nissan Rogue and that collision forced it to “spin and hit” two seniors (a 71-year-old woman and a 70-year-old man) in the crosswalk. 

Authorities say the Prius punk who allegedly caused the wreckage continued to mount the curb and then timbered a crosswalk signal. 

Rather than stay put and tend to the fallen (and one unconscious) walkers and crashed drivers — the suspect managed to bust out of his crinkled car’s passenger side door. 

He was witnessed turning on his Reebok turbos for an escape bid. 

Officers were able to catch up to him blocks away and forced him to surrender. 

During questioning, the suspect admitted to cruising around at speeds of “43, 44, 45 MPH” while smoking “a couple cigarettes” and playing tunes. 

Pressed on what brought on the wreckage and harm done to the two older innocents and he attempted to explain it all away. 

“I was alone in the car,” he told investigators. “I was driving with music, it’s kind of a blur for me.”

After trying to explain the speed he was going (far below the reported 75 MPH) he claimed his consciousness was obscured. 

“I don’t know what happened,” he told them. “It’s like a blur. 

“A car hit me, I hit a car.”

He continued: “I was going straight and the light was green. The other car was coming toward me, the opposite way.”

After the first impact with the Mercedes “I closed my eyes and tried to get out through the driver’s seat.”

He claims he tried to get out through the driver’s seat, but it didn’t budge. 

With the car smoking he fled out the passenger side door. 

He claims that he walked a few blocks and then started running when he saw “three guys chasing me.”

Those three turned out to be responding cops.

But in the wake of the calamity, the suspect was “scared they were going to shoot me.”

He claims to have procured his driver’s license when he turned 18 and that he was well aware of the rules to standby after an accident and trade information. 

But he stated that the disarray clouded his judgment. 

“I didn’t know what happened,” he said. “I thought, ‘God forbid I die’ because yeah, the airbag hit my face.”

So he fled the car and claims he was innocently “walking away.”

ASked if he was inebriated on drugs or booze and the hit-and-run driver claimed he was sober as a priest. 

“I don’t drink alcohol, no drugs,” he said. 

But he does take meds… “nothing else.”

Yet, when he was prompted to give up the script, the suspect was braindead. 

“It’s from the doctor,” he explained. “I don’t know the name, I’m so sorry.”

The one who knows his meds is actually his sister because she “picked it up from the pharmacy for me.”

The 71-year-old woman that was struck in the crash suffered head trauma and was hospitalized in critical condition. The man also was taken to the hospital and listed in critical. 

The driver was busted for assault, leaving the scene of an incident without reporting serious physical injury, reckless driving, red traffic signal light violation, speeding, and speed restrictions.

IT WAS AN open bar out of his car parked in the heart of Times Square. And he was the lone tippler. 

Cops checked out a 33-year-old taking a few rips from a can of hooch inside his car that was holding up traffic. 

It was just before 9 p.m. on June 14 and the thirsty one was parked on the corner of Broadway and West 46th Street. 

Officers approached the driver and noticed he was holding an open can of something that wasn’t soda pop. 

They then sighted a pile of bottles littered around the car. 

That prompted a DWI investigation. 

The man was ordered to extricate from the car. 

While they searched the ride, the man was brought to the 7th Precinct where he underwent a Breathalyzer test. 

The results of the test determined the man wasn’t smashed. 

However, the car was still impounded. 

A closer look of the vehicle rendered a stash of Rx pills scattered behind the front seat. 

From the trunk, the cops pulled out a Smith & Wesson 9mm pistol with 8 rounds in the clip.

So while he beat the DWI rap, the driver was booked on criminal possession of a loaded firearm, criminal possession of a controlled substance (with interment to sell), and driving without a license.

TWO TIRE KICKERS floating an offer to make a buy for several cell phones from a man and his brother were far more keen on grabbing the sellers’ cash and bling. 

Both bait-and-switch thugs met with the seller at around 9:30 p.m. on March 15 in front of a residential building on Cedar Avenue. 

They quickly broke character about hoping to scoop up the phones what with one of the scoundrels drawing a gun. 

“Give me everything you got or I will shoot you,” he barked as he pointed the gat at the seller. 

The 27-year-old defendant chimed in, "Listen to him!"

His armed compadre repeated the sentence two more times: "Give me everything you got or I will shoot you!"

He then ripped the chains (worth an estimated $23,000) dangling from the victim’s neck. 

They then ordered the stuck up victim to call his brother to swing by. 

When the brother rolled up in his car — the heavy with the gun gave him the same (albeit more succinct) business: "Give me everything you have!"

With both brothers facing the gun barrel, the brother forfeited his car keys. 

That had the accused and apparently unarmed suspect telling the brother, "Get out of the car and go!"

His gunman chum then used the said keys to unlock the car and pocket $2,600 in cash. 

Months went by until May 5, when cops took the one suspect (who didn’t pull a gun in the phone buying ruse holdup). 

He faces robbery (with a firearm), robbery (of a motor vehicle), grand larceny, and petit larceny.

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A DISASTROUS DRIVING elder was nabbed brandishing a blade after slamming into another car driven by a mom and her 8-year-old daughter. 

Whatever etiquette tricks the 71-year-old man might be able to learn at this point — they’re not gonna be taught at Cotillion. 

For his etiquette skills appear to be beyond the pale. 

The suspect allegedly crashed into a woman’s car while pulling out of a parking space in a lot at P.S. 6 on Snyder Avenue blade afternoon of June 9. 

Before she could even assess the situation or settle her disturbed child — the mother saw standing at her window the man who hit her and he was toting a kitchen knife. 

He then moved it to her neck and snapped, “I’m gonna stab you!”

Afterward he sauntered to the rear of her car still dangling the knife and all of it terrorized the crash victims. 

The knife man was swiftly pursued and cuffed. 

He faces menacing (with a weapon) two counts of weapons possession (with intent to use) one count of acting in a manner injurious to a child less than 17 and two counts of harassment.

HE FOUND HER waiting outside shopping center where he lured her into a cab and took advantage. 

The 14-year-old girl was standing on Richmond Terrace out front of several storefronts when a 46-year-old man approached her. 

Some sweet talk had the youth gain some trust. And so she accompanied the way older man to a nearby deli. 

Then, the same sicko hailed a cab and they wheeled away somewhere more remote. 

Once alone, the man put his mitts on the girl’s buttocks. 

Fortunately, the molested victim escaped her grotesque captor.

The pervy perp took off too. 

But the girl was able to give gumshoe cops details of the bald beast’s dark complexion and his blue and red jacket, dark pants, and dark shoes. 

Two days later they found the man they say corrupted the innocent teen. 

He is up against it now with attempted kidnapping and forcible touching.

TWO TRIES TO re-up New York prisoners at two separate institutions with phones, pills, and weed — failed.

Jailers at both Wallkill and Sing Sing foiled drones attempting to secretly deposit drugs and gizmos into the premises.

Remote pilots first attempted to breach the fortified Wallkill Correctional Facility at around 1:15 a.m. on May 26.

One sentry keeping the outside grounds secure detected a whirring from above encroaching the yard.

The officer heard what appeared to be a loud thud in the yard and saw the drone trying to rendesvous.

The report prompted a search and that led to the discovery of a large bundle wrapped in green plastic with a fishing line attached.

The package weighed in at around five pounds and was soon X-rayed.

In it, were three vacuum-sealed bundles with all kind of items including cell phones, SIM cards, cell phone charging cables, numerous security bits, bags of pills, and 15 vacuum-sealed bags of marijuana.

A second drone was spotted outside Sing Sing Correctional Facility at around 3:45 a.m. on June 8.

Again, an officer manning the exterior of the prison saw a drone hovering over the facility and witnessed it drop a package into the yard before flying away.

The dropped cargo was a clear plastic trash bag with a fishing line attached.

There was a brown paper bag filled with several vacuum-sealed packages including 500 grams of marijuana, 15 pills, a set of Apple earphones, and a cell phone charging cord.

The pills are being tested to determine their chemistry.

A statement by Joe Horacek, Mid-Hudson Region Vice President, reads: “There is a broader pattern of drone use to smuggle contraband into prisons as inmates and their associates continue to find new ways to introduce drugs, weapons, and other dangerous items inside correctional facilities.”

It continues: Without successful prosecution, there is no deterrent for individuals who continue to use drones to deliver contraband into our prisons. These illegal activities only contribute to the already unsafe working conditions faced by correction officers and prison staff every day.”

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