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October 3, 2008
Parole scare!
The Brooklyn Paper
By Sarah Portlock
After Bruce Ratner leased space in his MetroTech complex to a Federal parole office, parents of students of St. Ann's, another Ratner MetroTech tenant, were assured that things like this would never happen:
Since July, the private school has shared space with a federal parole office in the Bruce Ratner-owned One Pierrepont Plaza building — and parents have continued to express concern that parolees and their kids should not be mingling so closely.
Those fears were realized on Sept. 23, when an ex-con, who was wanted in a separate assault case, showed up for his scheduled parole appointment only to find two plainclothes officers waiting for him.
The felon, sensing the sting, raced out of the building with two officers in hot pursuit. A third officer briefly reached into his jacket — possibly to pull his service pistol, though the gun was never out in the open, a witness said.
Posted by lumi at October 3, 2008 5:46 AM