DWI, Filled Pool With Hydrant Water: 5 NYC Workers Arrested In 1 Week

NEW YORK CITY — A city worker reportedly filled his personal pool with fire hydrant water, a local EMT was slapped with an unlawful imprisonment charge and an NYPD officer was nabbed on a DWI offense as part of five city employee arrests within a week.

The first incident happened early Saturday morning when off-duty NYPD officer Marlaine Cleveland, 43, was taken into custody just after 3 a.m. in Queens. She was charged with DWI, police said.

Cleveland has been accused of abuse of authority in 2013, according to ProPublica’s NYPD civilian complaint files. The accusation was later “substantiated” and she was met with “command discipline,” per the report.

The next day at about 4 a.m., School Safety Agent Sherice Carraway, 35, was charged with assault in a domestic incident in the Bronx, police said.

At about 10:20 p.m. Tuesday in southern Queens, 41-year-old sanitation worker Rodolfo Jiminez was charged with theft of city services after reportedly opening a city fire hydrant and attaching an industrial sized hose to fill his personal backyard pool, police said.

Jiminez could face up to one year in jail and a fine of $1,000 or double the monetary value of whatever the defendant gained from the crime.

Wednesday saw two city employee arrests within hours of each other. At about 3 p.m., 31-year-old NYPD School Safety agent Tikeya Smith was charged in Brooklyn with petit larceny and criminal possession of stolen property after she reportedly took items from a store shelf without paying, police said.

Just before midnight, FDNY EMT Min Park, 31, was charged in Queens in a domestic incident. Min was charged with menacing, unlawful imprisonment, assault and harassment, police said.