A brazen drug dealer busted for slinging marijuana out of tents on a busy Bronx sidewalk was back on the block just a day after being exposed by The Post.
Though the makeshift shelters were nowhere to be seen Saturday, the thug had no problem laying claim to his turf and vowing their enterprise isn’t going up in smoke.
“Get the f–k outta here!” the man fumed at a Post female reporter who tried gathering information from local residents about the removal of the wintry weed tents along University Avenue in Morris Heights.
“You’re taking my business. You don’t belong here. You’re gonna see what happens. You think this is funny?”
The thug, accompanied by a rogue posse of three other stone-faced men, claimed he was one of two people the NYPD arrested Friday.
“I just got locked up yesterday for this bulls–t, and I’m not afraid to go back,” he added.
He recorded the reporter and a Post photographer with a smartphone — at one point assaulting the shutterbug, poking him on the cheek three times with his hands — before stalking them for a nearly block as they hastily walked away towards West 176th Street.
“White mother f–er!” the thug shouted. “Go back to Manhattan! I’m not gonna tell you. I’m gonna show you.”
Cops first observed the open-air drug tents – one of which shamelessly advertised “Good Weed Deals” on a handwritten menu – around 2 p.m. Friday, shortly after an earlier confrontation between other Post journos and the alleged illicit pot peddlers.
There were two tents — one black, one red-orange — on the snowy sidewalk, with orange electrical cords running to nearby poles, presumably to provide power.
Police officers removed the tents and “will continue to address the conditions in the area,” an NYPD spokesperson said.
Two Bronx men – Michael Lightly, 41, of 1001 University Ave.; and Dawson Short, 39, of 1865 University Ave. – were arrested and slapped with charges of theft of service and unlicensed vending. Lightly was also charged with resisting arrest, according to the NYPD.
The tents reached online infamy this week after a TikTok user documented them in a video emblazoned with the phrase, “Only in the Bronx” — and featuring one bleary-eyed occupant peering out.
The video went viral among critics of NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who blamed the Democratic socialist’s arguably soft-on-crime stances — even though some nearby business owners claimed the seedy setups popped up two or three years ago.
Reps for Mamdani, who was traveling in Albany Saturday, did not immediately return messages.
The alleged illicit pot peddlers also didn’t take kindly to being smoked out by the other Post staffers Friday.
A reporter and photographer on Friday spied two tents — one black, one red-orange — on the snowy sidewalk. The red tent had a hand-scrawled sign on a dry-erase board declaring “Shops Open,” along with prices for pre-rolled joints and baggies up to $100.
As the journos sniffed around the hot boxes, a masked mope holding a phone aggressively confronted the photographer sitting in a car and demanded to know why he was taking photos.
The photographer drove off with the drug dealers’ apparent lookout still knocking on his window.
Additional reporting by Vaughn Golden.
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