A reckless ATV rider was busted for allegedly slamming into NYPD Deputy Chief John Chell in Manhattan last week, but was allowed to walk free on supervised release – a move that department sources …
A reckless ATV rider was busted for allegedly slamming into NYPD Deputy Chief John Chell on the FDR Drive last week, police sources said.A reckless ATV rider accused of intentionally slamming into an NYPD deputy chief could have been slapped with bail but was instead allowed to walk free — only more outrageous proof of the city’s “broken judicial system,’’ law-enforcement sources raged to The Post on Monday.
The scenario involved a key quality-of-life issue that Mayor Eric Adams has made a point of crowing about tackling — including in June, when he held a press conference with NYPD brassSome of Friday’s ATV riders, including Seleita, tried to drive back in the wrong direction to escape the cops, sources said.
He was hit with a laundry list of charges: second-degree assault, resisting arrest, leaving the scene of an accident with injury, obstruction of governmental administration, criminal mischief, disorderly conduct, failure to obey a police officer and a violation of designated one-way road signs, the NYPD said.
“Although [the] defendant has no criminal history, in this case he was in a large group of people illegally riding dirt bikes on the FDR,” prosecutors said in their bail application.
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