The “blond bruiser” suspected of punching out a Manhattan dogwalker is a jobless drifter who spends most of his time on a surfboard.
Corey Pohan, 32, who was picked up Wednesday night in New Jersey and is awaiting extradition to New York, is the picture of fitness in his Facebook boasts.
“Six pack sicker then its ever bin,” Pohan says of his physique in a recent, misspelled post, above photos of surfing trips to Mexico, Baja and Indonesia.
Many of the photos show him with his stunning brunette girlfriend, who lives in southern California.
Pohan — who closer to home works at an unlicensed Central Park bike rental company — was ordered held without bail by a Hudson County Superior Court judge on Thursday morning.
He is expected to be charged in New York with socking Hell’s Kitchen dogwalker Paul Martone, 49, who remains in an intensive care unit with brain swelling, a contusion and a fractured skull.
Witnesses told cops that the Tuesday evening fight on West 55th Street and Ninth Avenue had started when Martone complained that Pohan had stepped over Martone’s Chihuahua, Peanut, rather than walking around the little pooch.
Pohan was in the wind until Wednesday night, when cops tracked him down at his mom’s Lakewood, NJ, home.
Cops intentionally did not get an arrest warrant before contacting Pohan Wednesday to avoid having to read him his rights and risk him clamming up, sources said.
Pohan volunteered to get into the cops’ unmarked car for the ride back to New York, sources told The Post. Once at the Lincoln Tunnel toll plaza, Pohan got cold feet, demanding that the cops pull over at the Turnpike toll booth and let him out, which the cops did.
“They’re at the Lincoln Tunnel, and he says, ‘You don’t have a warrant for my arrest. That’s it. I’m leaving,” a source said.
But as soon as Pohan bolted — bizarrely jumping on top of a toll booth and trying to hide there — the cops called New Jersey State Troopers, who arrested him for walking on a public highway.
On Friday, he’ll go before another Hudson County Superior Court judge for an extradition hearing on the New York assault case.
“You’re only seeing one side of the story,” Pohan’s mom, who asked her name not be used, complained to The Post. “He was pushed and shoved. He was acting in self defense… My son is not a bruiser or a hothead. He’s a great kid. He’s very controlled.”
Back at the victim’s Hell’s Kitchen building, neighbors said they were delighted by the news of Pohan’s arrest.
“I think he deserves to be put in a mental institution,” railed one neighbor, who declined to give her name. “Rage like that is not normal.”
Added a neighbor who gave his name as “Bobby,” “It’s good for the police. It’s good for everybody that he got caught.”
Pohan is well known — and much reviled — just four blocks north of the altercation, at the entrance to Central Park.
Soon after police released the chilling video of the near-deadly sucker-punch, employees of the Bike and Roll bicycle rental operation at the park’s south-west entrance were calling 911 to say they recognized him.
“He’s around all the time,” complained company president Chris Wogas. “He’s been a complete menace. He’s threatened our security. He’s threatened our marketing manager to the point where she had to file a police report against him.