The sexual predator being eyed in the disappearance of a club-going beauty screamed at his employee for telling cops where he lived and ordered her to keep her mouth shut, she said yesterday.
“I can’t believe you told them where I live!” Michael Mele shouted over the phone at Kim Rosario, the manager of his Quiznos franchise, hours after investigators came into the shop.
The cops showed up at the Middletown eatery Friday afternoon, less than two days after Laura Garza was last seen with Mele.
“I called him and he wouldn’t talk to them. He told me not to tell them that he moved. I told him that I wasn’t going to lie to the police,” Rosario, 21, told The Post. “The cops grabbed the phone from me and told Mike that he had to come down.”
A few hours later, Mele, 23, turned himself in. He has refused to answer any questions, and is being held on a probation violation from an earlier sex offense.
A friend of Garza’s who had gone to the club that night said when she left, she saw Mele chatting up her friend.
Additional reporting by Mary Nichols in McAllen, Texas