A Bronx wife whose cheating hubby was charged in a drunken hit-run of his mistress said today she’s broken up with him over his callous betrayal.
“He’s supposed to be my husband — he’s supposed to be not cheating,” a fuming Rosa Estevez told The Post at her Barnes Avenue home.
Estevez — whose husband Ricaury Pena, 28, was driving her SUV when he plowed into his gal pal after a fight early yesterday in Midtown — had rushed to Pena’s side as he was hospitalized after cracking up the Honda Pioneer hours after the mayhem.
Then she learned the awful truth: that Pena was in a romantic relationship with the 23-year-old cocktail waitress he allegedly mowed down on West 46th Street between Fifth and Sixth avenues.
“I have no idea what was going on with them. All I know is they got into a fight, they got into an argument, and he hit her,” Estevez said.
“We broke up. We don’t have a relationship — now only a daughter.”
Circumstances surrounding the freakish hit-run are still being unraveled, police said today.
It isn’t clear if Pena intentionally ran into the woman, who works at El Tequilazo bar on West 46th Street — or if he inadvertently struck her as she jumped in front of the vehicle, or if she was hanging onto the car and was struck as Pena made a mad dash from the fight.
But about five hours after the hit-run — when Pena left his girlfriend bleeding in the street — Pena crashed the Honda, which is registered in his wife’s name and is co-owned by the couple, on the Harlem River Drive near 174th Street, police said.
He remains in Harlem Hospital in serious condition today.
The hit-and-run victim, whose name hasn’t been released, is at Bellevue in stable condition with a gash on her forehead.
Pena’s father-in-law, Esteban Estevez, 79, also was caught off-guard by Pena’s infidelity when The Post spoke with him yesterday.
“I’ve only known him as the husband of my daughter, and nothing else,” he said at the time.
Pena and Rosa Estevez have a 3-year-old daughter.
The SUV Ricaury Pena was driving when he allegedly struck his mistress, fled, and then crashed on Harlem River Drive. (William Farrington)