POLICE BLOTTER

DWI CHARGE FOR DAUGHTER OF MAN WHO GUNNED DOWN OFFICER

The daughter of a man accused of killing a police officer in the Bronx was arrested yesterday for driving while intoxicated, police said. At 3:42 a.m., Stefanie Armento, who turned 21 last month, was driving on the Sheridan Expressway when she passed a police vehicle by driving on the shoulder of the road, police said. The Yonkers resident, whose father was charged with shooting to death police Officer Daniel Enchautegui during a December break-in with her ex-boyfriend, actor Lillo Brancato, exited at East 177th Street and the Cross Bronx Expressway. She allegedly blew through a stop sign and the scene of an unrelated accident before coming to a stop at the Hutchinson River and Pelham parkways. Her breath allegedly reeked of alcohol. A Breathalyzer test was administered at the 45th Precinct, indicating a blood alcohol level of .161, double the legal limit, police said.

– Staff Reporter of the Sun

MAN SHOT BY POLICE DIES

A Queens man who was shot in the lower back by police Saturday night died yesterday, police reported. According to police, Rasheem Parrish, 20, of Beach Channel Drive in Far Rockaway died just after midnight at Jamaica Hospital, after being shot by police around 8 p.m. Saturday in a close-quarters struggle over Parrish’s loaded 9 millimeter pistol. Police initially responded to a call about the weapon, but Parrish punched one responding officer and struggled with several others who tried to wrestle away his gun. As of last night, the shooting was still under investigation.

– Special to the Sun

CITYWIDE

CITY TO PRINT MANUAL FOR RESTAURANT REGULATIONS

Restaurant regulations have become so complex that New York has produced a guidebook to help restaurateurs through the thicket of city regulations, according to a report in Crain’s New York Business. The 66-page New York Restaurant Owner Manual, which will be distributed free to restaurants when their licenses are renewed with the Department of Consumer Affairs, addresses numerous health, safety, and labor regulations. The city plans to print 2,000 copies of the manual, which was written by the nonprofit Restaurant Opportunities Center of New York in consultation with restaurateurs, worker advocacy groups, and city officials.

– Staff Reporter of the Sun

LETTERS PREPARE SEPTEMBER 11 FAMILIES FOR RELEASE OF 911 CALLS

The city has sent out letters to 24 families of people killed in the September 11 attacks advising them that partial transcripts and recordings of 911 calls made by the victims soon will be released to the public because of a court order.

The letters, sent by express mail on Friday, advised only family members whose dead relatives could be identified from the calls recorded by Police and Fire Department operators. The imminent release of the records was ordered by a judge in a case brought by the New York Times and nine family members of victims under the state’s Freedom of Information law seeking Fire Department records.

The lawsuit asked that the complete records of the 911 calls be released, but the judge ordered that the victims’ sides of the conversations with the operators be redacted unless specifically released by the nearest kin. The city has decided to release calls taken by Police Department operators on the same basis.

– Associated Press

IN THE COURTS

JUDGE TO DETERMINE WHAT GOVERNMENT WILL SAY IN WIRETAPPING SUIT

A federal judge will soon decide what the government must say, if anything, about whether it used electronic surveillance against Muslim men now suing the government in one of the more unusual lawsuits resulting from the war on terror.

Magistrate Judge Steven Gold in Brooklyn ordered the government on March 7 to confirm that neither the Justice Department’s legal team nor any prospective witnesses knew of any electronic wiretapping of the conversations between Muslim men who are now suing the government and their lawyers. The Muslim men had been rounded up after September 11, 2001, and deported months later.

Magistrate Gold has not yet issued an order in response to a government attorney’s March 17 letter that any information the government provided “could itself tend to reveal classified information.”

– Staff Reporter of the Sun