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Goetz hit on pretty cop who busted him for pot

He can’t Goetz no satisfaction.

Subway vigilante Bernard Goetz had been lamely hitting on the young undercover narcotics cop who busted him on pot-sale charges Friday night, The Post has learned.

The female undercover had no idea — until after he was in custody — who the “creepy old man” was who chatted her up in Union Square Park, invited her up to his apartment to “get high,” and then allegedly sold her $30 in pot, a source familiar with the investigation said.

Goetz riding in the back seat of a car leaving criminal court.

“It sounds like he was definitely trying to pick her up. But what a pickup line — give me $30,” the source said of Goetz who became a part of city lore in 1984 when he shot four youths who he said were threatening him on a downtown 2 train.

Goetz, 65, was busted a short time after leaving his apartment with the cute undercover, who was 40 years his junior.
He spent the night in custody before being arraigned in Manhattan Criminal Court on Saturday afternoon on a charges of misdemeanor pot possession and sale. A judge released him on his own recognizance.

“This is stupid; I shouldn’t have done it,” he told cops while in custody, according to the prosecution’s account of his arrest.

Goetz had given the undercover a small amount of pot folded into a napkin, and had a bit more on him, in a baggie in his pocket, when he was arrested, according to the criminal complaint.

“That was all the marijuana I have,” prosecutors say he helpfully told cops. “I don’t have any more.”

“She was young and pretty and found him to be fairly creepy,” a source said of the pretty undercover. “He was just this creepy old man to her.”

Despite the small amount of pot involved, Goetz was ordered held overnight Friday due to the lone charge that stuck to him — felony gun possession — from the notorious vigilante case.

A jury believed his account of having fired five shots at four black teenagers in self defense and cleared him of murder, assault and reckless endangerment.

The controversial acquittal divided the city, with many arguing that he was a dangerous racist and others that he was a crime-fighting hero.

“You don’t look so bad, here’s another,” he infamously admitted telling one of the teens he shot — a statement he later denied making.

Goetz has largely kept a low profile in the years since winning his acquittal and losing a subsequent civil trial on behalf of the teens he shot, Barry Allen, Troy Canty, Darrell Cabey and James Ramseur, all pals from the Bronx.

He ran for mayor in 2001 and for Public Advocate in 2005, but since then has largely only agreed to media interviews on the topic of his activism on behalf of troubled city squirrels.

Goetz regularly feeds and rescues squirrels, and has posed for news cameras with his own pet squirrel, “Creme Puff.”

Two of the teens Goetz shot, meanwhile, have had their own brushes with the law.

Ramseur — claimed to have been brandishing a screwdriver while demanding money — wound up dead of a prescription overdose in 2011 after serving prison time for a Bronx rape and robbery.

Allen has served time for two robberies; Canty is a mechanic and lives in the Bronx; Cabey remains paralyzed and lives with his family in Valley Stream, NY.

“Bernie Goetz has gone from a love affair with guns to a love affair with squirrels and pot,” noted Cabey’s lawyer, Ron Kuby. “I guess that makes him less dangerous to the innocent.”

“He don’t wanna hear about that guy. It was a nightmare, you know?” Cabey’s brother Victor told The Post of Cabey’s reaction to the Goetz bust.

Said Canty’s brother, Carl, “Life is a cycle. What you put in is what you will get back out of it. He [Goetz] puts in evil and now he is getting back evil.”

Additional reporting by Georgett Roberts and Kathryn Cusma