The lawyer for accused Brooklyn serial dine-and-dash diva Pei Chung has requested a choose for a psych eval for her — whereas the supervisor of the restaurant she allegedly final scammed acquired an order of safety.
“My shopper appears to be confused about what’s happening. I had a really tough [time] chatting with her, and I’m involved about her well-being,” Chung’s lawyer, McCarthy Hawkins, instructed the courtroom at her shopper’s newest arraignment Saturday.
Chung, a 34-year-old designer-loving wannabe influencer, has had the cops known as on her not less than 10 occasions for the reason that finish of final month for allegedly eating and making an attempt to sprint with out paying.
Friday was her eighth arrest: this time for allegedly stealing $149 in meals and refusing to pay at fashionable Mexican restaurant Mole Bar and Grill in Williamsburg, in line with Brooklyn prosecutors.
Her lawyer requested Brooklyn Legal Court docket Decide Jung Park to spring the accused Michelin star-loving bandit free on supervised launch to “enable her a possibility to see the docs on her personal,” in line with a courtroom transcript.
Chung had been freed after every of her earlier arrests.
The suspect bizarrely piped up, “No” at that time throughout the continuing — though it’s unclear why.
The choose surmised, “I don’t suppose she desires to do supervised launch.
“She simply mentioned no, and she or he left arraignments this previous two occasions with out speaking to supervised launch, and a warrant needed to be issued,’’ Park mentioned.
Brooklyn Assistant District Legal professional Jordan Rossman requested that Chung be held on $10,000 money bail or $20,000 bond “for consuming a whole lot of {dollars} of meals in eating places, after which refusing to pay.
“She’s been launched onto supervised launch and warned to not re-offend, and she or he retains doing the identical factor,” Rossman mentioned, including that prosecutors have been looking for bail on the usually no-bail theft-of-services crime after she allegedly stored committing it.
The choose in the end issued an order of safety for the supervisor of the final restaurant Chung allegedly scammed and locked the suspect up on $4,500 money bail.
Chung has been held on the Rose M. Singer Heart on Rikers Island since.
Chung’s string of arrests started in late October, when eating places together with Francie, Lavender Lake, Motorino and Peter Luger claimed Chung posed as a meals influencer to attain meals earlier than allegedly dashing on the tabs.
The supervisor at Peter Luger claimed that Chung had provided intercourse for a free meal — whereas different focused eating places mentioned the diner tried scoring free meals by saying she’d embrace their restaurant on her meals weblog.
Chung — who flaunts Prada heels, Louis Vuitton purses and Hermes belts throughout Instagram — typically posted in regards to the dear dishes on her web page along with operating a mediocre weblog reviewing her meals.
She’s anticipated to subsequent seem in courtroom Wednesday.
