NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
Call it a family affair.
Cops arrested five members of a drug-dealing clan in two raids, authorities said yesterday.
Acting on a tip, detectives raided the Heartland Village home of Arthur Santopietro Jr. and gal pal Trady Ferriaoullo, both 26, Thursday at 5:15 a.m., officials said.
They allegedly found 11 large bags of cocaine, a digital scale and a marijuana blunt at the home on Windham Loop near Marsh Avenue.
About 45 minutes later, cops forced their way into the Tottenville home of Santopietro’s dad and reportedly found a loaded TEC-9 semi-automatic pistol, a .32-caliber handgun, a .30-caliber rifle and almost 200 rounds of ammo.
A vial of heroin and Ziploc bags of cocaine were also confiscated, sources said.
Santopietro Jr., Ferriaoullo, Santopiertro Sr., 65, his wife Karen, 59, and their son Scott, 32, were arrested and charged with drug and weapons possession, a spokesman for DA Daniel Donovan said.
A driver high on marijuana smashed into three parked cars in Elm Park, authorities said yesterday.
James Meehan, 20, swerved into the first vehicle, then hit the other two up the block on Eleanor Place near Hilltop Lane at 6 p.m. Wednesday, sources said.
Meehan admitted to police that he had smoked pot shortly before driving, according to court papers.
He was charged with driving under the influence and leaving the scene of an accident, said the DA spokesman.
A man and two women were arrested early yesterday for PCP and marijuana possession after cops pulled over their car in Graniteville, authorities said.
James Wilson, 35, was stopped for driving recklessly and failing to signal at Willowbrook Road near Neptune Place at 12:55 a.m., cops said.
When an officer approached, Wilson tossed a vial of PCP yet claimed it was cologne, sources said.
Five more vials of the hallucinogen were found in the car, cops said.
Passengers Safia Haakmat, 22, and Amanda Ferone, 20, were also busted for drug possession, the DA spokesman said.
An inebriated, lewd groper assaulted a good Samaritan who tried to stop him at a bar in Stapleton early yesterday, law-enforcement officials said.
The victim was celebrating his birthday at the Bay Street Saloon near Sands Street at 1 a.m. when a heavily intoxicated Nicholas Mendez stumbled in, sources said.
Mendez, 22, allegedly started groping women and then struck the Samaritan over the head with a beer bottle.
Mendez was arrested, while the victim received almost 30 stitches at Richmond University Medical Center.
Brooklyn
A vagrant was arrested after she stabbed a worker at a Brownsville fast-food restaurant, officials said yesterday.
Julia Rhaburn, 37, walked into a fried-chicken restaurant on Fulton Street near Hemlock Street at 2:30 a.m. Thursday and asked a male employee for a free meal, authorities said.
The suspect in the past had received free food at the eatery but was turned down this time, sources said.
Rhaburn shouted, threw condiments at the employee and slashed him on the arm, officials said.
The wounded worker was treated at the scene.
Rhaburn was arrested and charged with assault and weapon possession, said a spokesman for DA Charles Hynes.
Manhattan
A loiterer was arrested for punching a cop in Central Park, officials said yesterday.
Courie Salmon, 39, was hanging out at the Heckscher Playground near Center Drive after it closed for the evening at 8 p.m. Tuesday, authorities said.
When an officer asked Salmon for ID, he allegedly tossed a lit cigarette in the cop’s face and dropped cocaine wrapped in tin foil.
As the cop tried to handcuff him, Salmon allegedly punched him several times in the stomach and legs.
Salmon was charged with assault, a DA spokeswoman said.
Cops are hunting a thug who allegedly beat and robbed a man in Kips Bay.
The mugger walked up to the 24-year-old victim on East 28th Street near Park Avenue South at 5:55 a.m. last Saturday, hit him in the face with a blunt object and robbed him, officials said.
The victim was treated at Bellevue Hospital.

