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The Catskill woman who was arrested for allegedly tossing a Molotov cocktail at a filled police van in Brooklyn Friday night has a lengthy rap sheet that includes collars in 11 separate states, federal authorities said Monday.
Samantha Shader’s arrest history includes a bust in January 2019 for interfering with a police officer in Waterford, Connecticut, federal prosecutors said in a detention memo Monday.
She was also convicted in February 2017 for possession of a controlled substance in Shawnee, Oklahoma, and sentenced to 90 days in jail, authorities said. In 2013, she was busted in Austin, Texas, for assault.
In arguing to detain her, prosecutors said none of her previous arrests have stopped her from traveling the country and committing more crimes.
The convictions haven’t stopped her “from escalating her crimes to the point where her actions could have seriously injured or killed four police officers and numerous bystanders in the vicinity of where she threw the Molotov cocktail,” they added.
A spokesperson for the Eastern District of New York declined to say if any of her previous arrests were related to protests.
Shader, 27, allegedly lit a Molotov cocktail near Eastern Parkway and Washington Avenue and threw it at an NYPD van with four cops inside.
The bottle shattered two of the vehicle’s windows as four cops sat inside — but the gas inside did not ignite because toilet paper was used instead of a rag, a police source previously told The Post.
The NYPD initially pressed for attempted-murder charges against her, but federal prosecutors took over the case and have charged her with damaging a police vehicle, which carries a maximum sentence of 20 years.