LIC resident ‘drunk with power’, NYPost reports
Police precinct 108
NY Post
You can’t arrest me — I am the law!
A boozed-up Brooklyn assistant district attorney was busted Thursday for allegedly refusing to pay cab fare — after telling cops that they couldn’t lock him up because he “outranked” them, sources said.
Blitzed barrister Imran Ansari was apparently heading to his home in Long Island City, Queens, at 10:19 p.m. when taxi driver Mohammad Hossain stopped his cab at 48th Avenue and Vernon Boulevard to let him out.
According to sources, the tipsy assistant DA refused to cough up the cab fare, telling Hossain: “I’m not going to pay you.”
The outraged hack drove with Ansari to the 108th Precinct station house, where he reported the ADA’s refusal to pay to police.
Cops told the drunk Ansari several times to produce the $21.50 fare, sources said.
But Ansari allegedly refused, and haughtily declared, “I’m a Brooklyn ADA and I outrank you,” a source said.
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Guess this is becoming the hotspot for drunken cab passengers and the cops. A week earlier, I was coming back from the E&I Deli around 3:00 AM when I saw a cab stopped in front of Spice, with a clearly passed-out guy in the backseat. Since the driver’s window was down, I asked him if he was OK; he told me had called the 108th and was waiting for them to arrive. Knowing he’d be better off waiting for Godot, I directed him to the precinct, where hopefully he got the fare out of the wasted schmuck. Could it have been the same ADA?
Hipster Scum.
Mike!