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 obtained 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, informed the court docket at her shopper’s newest arraignment Saturday.
Chung, a 34-year-old designer-loving wannabe influencer, has had the cops known as on her at the least 10 occasions because the finish of final month for allegedly eating and attempting to sprint with out paying.
Friday was her eighth arrest: this time for allegedly stealing $149 in meals and refusing to pay at stylish Mexican restaurant Mole Bar and Grill in Williamsburg, in accordance 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 “permit her a possibility to see the medical doctors on her personal,” in accordance with a court docket transcript.
Chung had been freed after every of her earlier arrests.
The suspect bizarrely piped up, “No” at that time in the course of 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 he or she left arraignments this previous two occasions with out speaking to supervised launch, and a warrant needed to be issued,’’ Park mentioned.
Brooklyn Assistant District Lawyer Jordan Rossman requested that Chung be held on $10,000 money bail or $20,000 bond “for consuming tons of 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 he or she retains doing the identical factor,” Rossman mentioned, including that prosecutors have been in search of bail on the sometimes no-bail theft-of-services crime after she allegedly saved 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 Middle 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 supplied 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 — usually posted concerning the expensive dishes on her web page along with operating a mediocre weblog reviewing her meals.
She’s anticipated to subsequent seem in court docket Wednesday.
