A topless Times Square painted lady was busted for offering an undercover cop more than a sexy snapshot, police said Thursday.
Destiny Romero and her handler Jason Perez allegedly arranged to sell the officer $200 worth of drugs — and for Romero to perform a sex act on the cop.
Romero, 20, was charged with drug possession and sale, and prostitution charges, cops said.
Perez, 23, was charged with promoting prostitution, sale and possession of a controlled substance, and possession of marijuana.
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Both have prior arrests on their rap sheets. Romero has been nabbed at least five times, including an assault charge on July 15. Perez was previously arrested in September 2014 for pot possession and in October 2014 for grand larceny, the sources said.
The desnudas became the target of city officials determined to keep Times Square from returning to its seedy past last month after the Daily News did a series of stories exposing both them and the shady men who handle their funds.
“Obviously, the area’s been the focus of a lot of attention,” said Deputy Commissioner Stephen Davis, the NYPD’s top spokesman. “Periodically, we do have vice enforcement there. We’ve beefed that up significantly.”
Mayor de Blasio convened a special task force charged with finding a legal way of evicting the jiggly panhandlers in the days after The News’ stories appeared.
Romero, in a previous interview with The News, insisted the mayor was the bad guy.
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“The authorities gave us the right to be topless,” said Romero. “Now, they’re taking it away. It’s a whole bunch of hateration.”
Meanwhile, a South Carolina businessman who allegedly attacked a topless Times Square painted lady — after accusing her of being a pickpocket — went before a judge Thursday.
Mark Walters, 46, let his court-appointed lawyer do the talking as he was arraigned on misdemeanor assault charges stemming from Wednesday’s fracas.
“My client has been a law-abiding individual his whole life,” attorney Gurmeet Singh said before noting the silver paint on Walter’s noggin. “He was actually assaulted and thrown to the ground by another quote-unquote street performer.”
Walters, a Bank of America executive from Charleston, did not enter a plea. Nor did he explain to the court where he thought the panhandler stashed his wallet.
Walters was having his picture taken with Lourdes Carrasquillo — a 20-year-old performer who wears only a headdress, thong and a thin layer of paint on her breasts when she is working — and noticed his wallet was missing when he went to tip her, cops said.
To keep Carrasquillo from getting away, Walter grabbed her “by the hair down to the ground,” prosecutor Gilbert Rein said. “When another complaining witness tried to intervene, the defendant then struck her in the head.”
Carrasquillo was treated at a local hospital for bumps and bruises and was back hustling for tips in Times Square on Thursday.
“I didn’t get a wallet,” she said. “What wallet?”
With Thomas Tracy, Edgar Sandoval, Shayna Jacobs, Erin Durkin
