A Brooklyn man turned a traffic ticket into four felony charges last night by trying to use $100 to bribe a cop who had pulled him over for running a red light in lower Manhattan, police sources said.
The quick-thinking officer, realizing the he would need witnesses to prove a bribe attempt, responded to Holiam Clement Ho’s offer by saying that two fellow officers wanted in on the action, cop sources said.
Ho hand the trio of officers $100 each, cops said.
But instead of a free ride, Ho got a ride to jail. At the station house, Ho admitted he offered the money, police sources said.
But he apparently didn’t learn a lesson from the ordeal: He offered yet another $100 bribe to the police inspector who was questioning him, cop sources said.
Ho faces up to seven years in jail on four counts of bribery.