New York Post, Monday, August 19, 2019nypost.com5There are nearly 150 mil-
lion reasons for New
Yorkers to check their
weekend Powerball num-
bers.
The single winning
ticket for Saturday night’s
$148 million jackpot was
purchased at a Long Is-
land gas station, according
to lottery officials.
“Customers have been
coming in today saying
they saw on the news that
the winner bought the
ticket here,” Mohammad
Chaudhary, 62, a cashier
at Merrick Gas & Repair, a
BP station on Merrick Av-
enue in Merrick, told The
Post on Sunday.
“They keep wanting to
know who it was. I wish I
could tell them!”
The winning ticket —
purchased as a Quick Pick
— had the numbers 18, 21,
24, 30 and 60, along with
the Powerball number 20.
Lottery officials con-
firmed that the winner
had not yet come forward
as of Sunday afternoon.
Reuven Fenton, Lee Brown
$148 mil
winner
sold on LI
Federal officials have
seized $2.3 million worth of
marijuana mixed in with a
shipment of jalapeño pep-
pers in San Diego.
A Customs and Border
Protection K-9 unit alerted
officers to a shipment of
peppers at a cargo facility
Thursday, authorities said.
Officers discovered more
than 7,500 pounds of mari-
juana in the peppers’ pal-
lets, Customs said.
Authorities seized more
than 10,600 pounds of mari-
juana in a shipment of plas-
tic auto parts at the port
Tuesday. AP
Feds find $2.3M
of ‘pepper’ pot
CHAUDHARY
Vendor: No idea who.COPS RIP BLAS
WOUNDED: Medics tend to an injured NYPD officer during Saturday night’s violence at the Marcy Houses in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn.PBA fury over bottle-hurling fracas
By LARRY CELONA,
CRAIG McCARTHY
and BRUCE GOLDINGThe NYPD’s largest union
blasted Mayor de Blasio on Sun-
day over a Brooklyn melee that
left three police officers injured —
and saw residents firing guns in
what a law-enforcement source
called a “ ‘f- -k you’ to the cops.”
Assailants at Bedford-Stuyve-
sant’s Marcy Houses Saturday night
targeted cops with hurled bottles
and other debris, which police be-
lieve were tossed out of windows
or from rooftops, the NYPD said.
None of the projectiles hit cops,
but one of the injured officers was
head-butted by a teen carrying
pepper spray, the department said.
“How are cops supposed to do
our job in this environment?When will @NYPDNews or
@NYCMayor @BilldeBlasio stand
up & say enough is enough?” the
Police Benevolent Association
said on Twitter Sunday.
“Chaos is running the streets.
This is outrageous — we’re lucky
it wasn’t worse.”
The violence at the housing
project came amid a spate of inci-
dents in which civilians have
tossed water and insults at cops.
Saturday’s unrest began at around
11 p.m. when cops responded to
complaints of a large group of
drunken people, police said. Vio-
lence erupted when officers ar-
rested one person and onlookers
turned on them, the NYPD said.
This prompted a mobilization of
cops from each of Patrol Borough
Brooklyn North’s 10 precincts.
Cops used pepper spray on thecrowd, and video showed people
using milk to flush their eyes.
At around 12:15 a.m., as the mobi-
lization was ending, a person fired
eight shots in the air from a roof-
top , causing police to resume the
process, sources said.
“It was a ‘f- -k you’ to the cops,”
one source said.
Four people were arrested in
three incidents. The most serious
involved a 17-year-old male who is
accused of head-butting a cop and
was allegedly found carrying a
boxcutter.
He was charged at Brooklyn
Criminal Court Sunday night with
assault on a police officer and
criminal possession of a weapon
— but released on a pretrial youth
program because he’s a minor
with no previous convictions.
Also arrested was Niasia Ste-phens, 28, who allegedly held a
can of dog repellant in front of
cops and said, “I’m going to shoot
you in the face,” sources said.
She was charged with menacing a
police officer, criminal possession
of a weapon and related charges.
Eleven people were issued sum-
monses for disorderly conduct
and ordered to community ser-
vice.
The three injured cops were
treated at hospitals and released.
One who fell and cut his arm
needed 12 stitches, the NYPD said.
De Blasio, campaigning in New
Hampshire, addressed the situa-
tion at around 4:15 p.m. Sunday.
“It’s really simple: anyone who
attacks our NYPD officers WILL
be caught and WILL pay the con-
sequences,” he tweeted, asking the
public for more information.Paul Martinka