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‘SPITE’ BITE BY TROOPER

A state trooper took road rage to a whole new level – writing up five phony traffic tickets to a Brooklyn man as payback after getting into a heated argument with him over a parking spot, authorities said yesterday.

Lester Hooper, 35, wrote the summonses – alleging traffic violations in three Westchester towns from Jan. 28 to Feb. 6 – without ever pulling over Derrick Perry, according to the Westchester County DA’s Office.

The sham tickets , featuring Perry’s name and license-plate number, were issued in retribution for a parking beef in Brooklyn, officials said.

The State Police Internal Affairs Bureau gave no details of the Jan. 26 quarrel – but Hooper’s lawyer, Pat Bonanno, would only say it involved “offensive” contact between Perry and Hooper’s wife.

Perry said Hooper was mad over an incident in which Perry didn’t pull his truck out of a spot fast enough for the impatient cop waiting to park. “He just came out like some sort of big shot,” Perry told the Journal News. “He’s a liar. He’s just trying to cover up because he messed up.”

The trooper was busted following a three-month investigation into allegations he had issued the bogus tickets to Perry.

Hooper wrote a ticket falsely alleging that Perry was going 80 mph in a 55-mph zone in Harrison, and had failed to signal while driving on Interstate 287 in the days following the Brooklyn run-in, according to court papers.

Hooper allegedly also gave Perry tickets for speeding in Greenburgh and White Plains.

Hooper, a former FedEx worker, was arraigned yesterday in Harrison, Greenburgh and White Plains on charges of offering a false instrument for filing and issuing a false certificate, both felonies, along with three counts of official police misconduct.

Hooper was released after posting $2,000 bail.

He did not come to the door at his home on Brooklyn Avenue in East Flatbush last night when approached by a Post reporter.

His car – with an orange, state-issued E-ZPass tag attached to the windshield – was in the driveway.

Hooper, a three-year State Police veteran based in Tarrytown with the task of patrolling Interstates 87, 95 and 287, has been suspended without pay.

Additional reporting by Alex Sundby and Peter Cox