Now, he’s occupying a jail cell.
A drug dealer was busted trying to peddle cocaine last night to Occupy Wall Street protesters in Zuccotti Park, The Post has learned.
Garfield Leslie, 19, began brawling with three protestors who had told him to leave their tent when he wandered in at around 8 p.m. and tried to sell small plastic baggies of cocaine, police sources said.
Leslie first punched a woman several times and then turned his fists on a guy who intervened, sources said. When another woman tried to stop the scuffle, Leslie allegedly hit her so hard in the chest she fell to the ground and injured her wrist, sources added.
The victims informed police officers assigned to a detail monitoring the park about their run-in with Leslie and the officers soon found the suspect walking around the encampment, allegedly still trying to deal drugs, sources said.
Leslie, of Brooklyn, was arrested and charged with felony assault, misdemeanor assault and drug possession.
Records show that Leslie was previously arrested four times over the summer.
On June 4, he was busted selling narcotics on a platform inside the West 4th Street subway station at Sixth Avenue, sources said.
Then, on July 15, Leslie allegedly cursed out an NYPD precinct commander who had instructed him to stop sleeping on a bench near Union Square Park. When officers searched Leslie, they found drug paraphernalia including marijuana pipes and 38 baggies of cocaine, sources added.
Four day later, he was handcuffed again after cops found him allegedly passed out on milk crates he had erected near the park on Union Square East.
And, on Aug 12, Leslie was collared at the Winthrop Street station in Brooklyn for illegally passing between the subway cars of a moving train, sources said. The arresting officer allegedly discovered cocaine stashed in Leslie’s shirt pocket.