He should have stuck to shooting craps and not shot off his mouth.
A suspect in a Harlem murder was arrested in Virginia during a raid on an illegal dice game — by a police officer who recognized him from his mug shot only after the suspect foolishly “gave him some lip,” law-enforcement sources said yesterday.
Angelo Hayes was shooting dice in the back of a store last month when Norfolk police raided the gambling den, the sources said.
Hayes, who allegedly shot D’Angelo Brown dead on Aug. 16 in the Harlem Bed and Breakfast on West 120th Street, immediately protested, catching the cop’s attention, a source said.
Detectives from Harlem’s 28th Precinct had just recently sent the mug shot to Virginia because Hayes had ties to the area.
He was extradited to New York City on Friday and was awaiting an arraignment hearing last night.
Brown, 23, was the ringleader in a cellphone scam, and Hayes, one of his scammers, allegedly shot him because he felt mistreated, sources told The Post.
Brown would pay people $100 for their smartphones, open accounts in their names and tell them to cancel after the first bills arrived, the sources said.
He would then sell the phones overseas and more than double his money, they explained.