The now-former DoorDash driver suspected of contaminating an NYPD employee’s Chipotle order was arrested on Thursday — and claimed it was all just “a prank that went out of hand.”
Lance Layne, 30, was charged with attempted assault on a police officer, tampering of consumer product and criminal tampering, the NYPD confirmed.
As he was being led out of a Brooklyn station house in handcuffs Thursday night, Layne was asked if he “put something in the food.”
“Definitely didn’t. It was a prank,” he told reporters. “They don’t got no note, no nothin’.”
Cops said Layne, who has an extensive criminal history, was a known member of the Bloods gang, and on parole for aggravated assault of a police or peace officer after being released from prison in November 2019.
Lance Layne leaves the 61st Precinct on July 15, 2021. Daniel William McKnight
Lance Layne was charged with attempted assault on a police officer, tampering of consumer product and criminal tampering. Daniel William McKnightThe alleged lunch-order saboteur was grilled Thursday afternoon at the 61st Precinct station house in Sheepshead Bay, police sources said.
That’s the same cop shop at which the driver is suspected of dropping off the befouled order on Monday afternoon.
A video posted to Facebook showed the driver opening up what appeared to be a burrito bowl and reaching inside with his unprotected mitts to insert a small, handwritten note that implied the order was further tainted.
“Hope that d-k taste good bitch!” read the note, misspelling a common crude term for the male genitalia.
The Facebook post — which included a screenshot of the DoorDash app detailing the order — suggested a grudge against the precinct, or at least cops in general.
“Ya kno I’m bout to violate the s–t out this order 61st precient [sic],” it was captioned. “I dreamed of moments like this … god u been so good to me like idk how to re pay u.”
Asked “Why the 61st Precinct?” Layne rolled down the window of the cop car he was placed in outside the station house Thursday night and replied: “Because that’s where (the order) went to.”
“It wasn’t no target,” he insisted. “I got nothing against him… it was a prank. They know that.”
A DoorDash spokeswoman said Wednesday that the driver had been booted from their service.
The DoorDash driver was being grilled Thursday afternoon at Brooklyn’s 61st Precinct station house in Sheepshead Bay. NYPD