New York Daily News

Rob susp: This is a drag, take some cocaine

- Stephen Rex Brown, Graham Rayman and Edgar Sandoval

A CROSS-DRESSING drug thief offered a witness a kilo of cocaine to avoid arrest, prosecutor­s said Wednesday.

Dionicio de la Cruz Rodriguez, 38, was caught on video Monday wearing a dress and wig as he walked into an apartment on E. 201st St. near Briggs Ave. in Jerome Park, cops said

With a knife in hand, Rodriguez forced the 83-year-old woman in the flat to stay in a bedroom as he grabbed 3 kilos of cocaine and $13,000 in cash, according to a criminal complaint unsealed in Manhattan Federal Court.

A witness outside the apartment, who was not identified, spotted the wig-wearing robber through the front door’s peephole. The witness confronted Rodriguez as he tried to leave the building. The pair scuffled and Rodriguez bit the witness in the forearm, authoritie­s said.

He told the witness he could take a kilo of the cocaine if he “ended the altercatio­n,” prosecutor­s said. Rodriguez is charged with robbery, drug possession with intent to sell and use of a firearm.

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