He was arrested Thursday morning, prosecutors said, and released on $100,000 bail.īefore being tapped as Adams’ informal public safety adviser, Pearson served on his transition team - and caught flack in January for suggesting a controversial idea of replacing NYPD officers at City Hall with less-trained civilian workers with guns, NBC reported. Slam, bam, thank you ma’am,” he said.īalkissoon said the duo could use pepper spray for the robbery, and even met up with the confidential informant Wednesday night to give him the weapon for the attack. In/out no more than f–king twenty seconds. “Look at me every carefully - this is 99-100% doable. The heist would be easy, Balkissoon told the witness. You have a good f–king punch … Or get a f–king BB gun … I got a rifle home,” he said. A weapon was a good idea for the crime, Balkissoon stated, according to prosecutors.
