Drugs & ammo bust at L.I. home
THE YOUNG MOTHER who handed her infant daughter to a complete stranger Wednesday after crashing her car into a Queens school claimed she was frightened because another driver with a gun was chasing her, authorities said.
Malikah George, 24, said she was behind the wheel, unlicensed and uninsured, trying to learn to drive, when she rear-ended another driver, according to her criminal complaint.
“He started chasing me. I am going through red lights, in and out of traffic. It was like cops and robbers,” she told police.
At 101 Ave. and 93rd St., she said she lost control of the gray 2004 Honda Civic, slammed into a light pole, then hit the fence outside Elizabeth Blackwell Junior High School in Ozone Park about 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday.
“I grabbed the baby,” she told police. “A woman comes up to me and says, ‘Let me help you,’ and I hand the baby to her and ran away. I don’t have a driver’s licence (or) car insurance and the car is not registered. I know I’m going to get arrested.”
Then, for some inexplicable reason, she returned to the scene a few hours later and confessed on-camera to a WABC-TV reporter.
George was charged with endangering the welfare of a child, leaving the scene of an accident, driving without a license and several other traffic offenses.
After her arraignment Thursday night, she was released without bail.
“I was so afraid for my life,” she said, claiming the other driver threatened her with a gun.
George said she works for the Department of Homeless Services as a security guard.
The 1-year-old baby, Ammenah Moore, was not harmed. Administration for Children’s Services on Wednesday said it had “taken action to secure the safety of this child.”
“I miss my daughter so much and I would do anything in the world to get her back,” she told WABC, her face lined with tears. “I work two jobs and I have to have a car to get to work, to get home.”
George’s former neighbors were shocked by her arrest.
“She’s a nice lady. Shy. She’s a good family person,” neighbor Leonard Shoulders, 30, said Thursday at George’s old apartment building on Vyse Ave. in the Bronx. “She had girlfriends she would chill with. Just a regular girl. She’s respectful to everyone.”
But after a reporter showed Shoulders the interview George gave to Channel 7, the neighbor quickly changed his tune.
“That’s crazy,” he said. “And then you ask a lady, ‘Can you hold my baby for an hour?’ You don’t know that person. That’s neglecting a child.
“As a parent, you’re supposed to be smarter that,” he said. “You don’t leave your baby to someone you don’t know.
“If I had crashed into that wall, I would stay with my baby. Wait for the ambulance, make sure she’s all right,” Shoulders added. “Now, they might take her baby away.” COPS HAVE arrested a Long Island man after finding cash, drugs and illegal gun magazines during a raid of his home, officials said Thursday.
Yasir Carnegie, 35, faces a host of drug and weapon possession charges after Suffolk County police raided his home on Merrill St. in Brentwood about 6:50 a.m. Wednesday.
Some of the items were found in a storage unit in Bay Shore that Carnegie used.
During the raid, cops allegedly recovered 47 high-capacity firearm magazines that can be used in AR-15 and AK-47 assault weapons, as well as parts for an AR-15, authorities said. Each magazine can hold up to 30 bullets.
Cops says they also recovered 80 grams of crack, 35 grams of heroin, the drugs MDNA and Suboxone, $18,664 and a money-counting machine.
Carnegie is expected to be arraigned Thursday.