5 NYC Workers Cuffed In Less Than A Day, Police Say

NEW YORK, NY — New York City workers were busy getting into trouble over the weekend. Police cuffed five off-duty city employees in less than 24 hours on Sunday and Monday for crimes ranging from drunken driving to assault.

Department of Corrections employee David Cruz was collared just before 1 a.m. Monday after allegedly slapping his live-in girlfriend in the face in Ridgewood, Queens, the NYPD said.

Cruz was charged with assualt and criminal mischief, police said.

Daniel Mahlmann, an FDNY emergency medical technician, was arrested for driving while intoxicated around 6:30 a.m. Sunday after cops responded to a car accident on the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway near Metropoltian Avenue in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, the NYPD said.

Mahlmann refused to take a brethalyzer test, a police spokeswoman said.

Renee Rowell-White, a Parks Department employee, was arrested just after 2 a.m. Sunday in connection with an alleged "verbal dispute" with someone in the Rockaways, police said. She is charged with assault and harassment.

A domestic incident led to the arrest of Juanita Williams, a school crossing guard, at 2:18 a.m. Sunday in the 63rd Precinct in Brooklyn, which encompasses Flatlands and Marine Park, police said.

Williams was charged with menacing, assault, harassment and criminal possession of a weapon, the NYPD said.

An NYPD school safety agent, Rahdasia Davenport, was arrested at 4:20 a.m. Sunday in Brooklyn's 75th Precinct, which covers East New York and Cypress Hills. Police did not give details about what led to Davenport's arrest, but said she's charged with menacing, assault and criminal possession of a weapon.

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