Don’t look for the crime rate to lessen in South Orange.
It is getting less and less likely Aquille Carr, nicknamed “The Crimestoper” because it was said crime dwindled in his troubled neighborhood when he was in action, will end up at Seton Hall.
The dynamic 5-foot-6 whirlwind of a guard from Baltimore, a Pirate verbal commit who attends Princeton Day Academy (N.J.), told the Baltimore Sun last month he was ready to go overseas after high school rather than enroll at Seton Hall.
“I’m ready to make it like my job,” Carr said. “If you know about basketball, you know what that means. By the end of the season, everybody will find out.”
Then last night, Carr tweeted a similar stance.
“The money wont always be there gotta get it when u can i turned it down last time not this time,” Carr wrote.
Two years ago, there were rumors Roma, the team that signed Bucks point guard Brandon Jennings out of high school, offered Carr $750,000.
Carr is one of the biggest recruits of the Kevin Willard era, and a Seton Hall source said if he qualified, he would be a Pirate, though that seems far-fetched at the moment. Carr’s stock has fallen far over the last year. His national ranking has dropped and he was arrested for assaulting the mother of his child over the summer.
He attended 22 sessions at the House of Ruth to clear his record and left Patterson in Baltimore after leading the public school to a Class 3A state championship for The Patrick School (N.J.), but spent this year at Princeton Day Academy.
zbraziller@nypost.com