From this morning’s police blotter in the Post:
A pickpocket who was picked up in Chinatown tried to bribe her arresting officer, sources said. “I’ll give you all the money in my wallet, which is over $1,000, or I can write you a check if you let me go,” Ha Vasko, 67, allegedly told the cop after he handcuffed her at 11:30 a.m. Tuesday near the corner of Hester and Elizabeth streets. Vasko had allegedly just swiped a wallet from a woman at that location and 10 minutes earlier had lifted a billfold from a mark on The Bowery near Grand Street.