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CRIME BLOTTER

Bad Cop

By Doug Black

Criminal mischief is always a bit more mischievous when it directly involves the people entrusted to prevent it. An off-duty police communications technician got into  a car accident in Crown Heights on July 11. Knowing his license was suspended, Daniel McCallum, 23, opted to flee the scene altogether. Some on-duty colleagues apprehended him moments later, ensuring some awkward encounters by the precinct water cooler.

In Brooklyn, a pair of enraged drivers assaulted an auxiliary NYPD officer over traffic infractions on July 10. Samuel Soto, 19, cut the cop off and then chucked a bottle of orange juice at his vehicle. When he was pulled over, Soto and his passenger, Felix Gonzalez, 21, attacked the officer. Luckily, backup arrived and nabbed the fleeing assailants before they could hurl any more fruit juices.

And in Bohemia, New York, a charlatan officer pulled over the wrong car on July 10. Equipped with police sirens and a phony badge, Robert Lane, 25, claimed that the driver, an off-duty police detective, had cut him off. The skeptical detective then produced his own legitimate badge and ordered him to pull over. Lane resisted, so the detective tailed him until local authorities could take over. Lane, who faces charges for criminal impersonation and unlicensed operation of a vehicle, then fulfilled his childhood dream—riding in a real police car. 
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