Saturday, December 28, 2019

Ex-Rikers inmates use city-funded debit cards to buy booze, juul pods

Ex-Rikers inmates use city-funded debit cards to buy booze, juul pods: Newly sprung Rikers jailbirds are trying to liquor up on the city’s dime.

The ex-inmates have been flooding area booze shops, ever since the recent launch of a soft-on-crime city initiative that provides them with two $25 gift cards, merchants said Saturday.

JR, an employee at Paretti’s Liquor Store near the Q100 bus stop along the bus route from Rikers to Queens Plaza said her store was refusing to sell to the cardholders.

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