An accused drug smuggler whined in Brooklyn federal court Wednesday that his left arm hurts where US Marshals shot him after he opened fire on them during his arrest in Queens last week.
“The excruciating pain of the defendant brings him to tears, we fear his arm is getting worse,” said the defense attorney for Oswald Lewis, who wants his client to get Percocet pills every four hours instead of just twice a day.
Judge James Orenstein refused to play doctor and instead ordered Lewis to be reevaluated by medical staff.
“I’m not a doctor and neither are you,” the judge told defense attorney Christopher Booth.
Lewis, 44, was armed with a .40-caliber semi-automatic handgun, wore a bulletproof vest, and claimed to have a hostage when marshals used a battering ram on his front door on Aug. 26, court papers state.
He has been a fugitive for nearly two decades on charges stemming from a 1991 warrant and was wanted in three states on drug charges.