New York Post

Busted 3 barely in hot water

- Rebecca Rosenberg, Reuven Fenton and Larry Celona

The three men busted in connection to the city’s spate of cop drenchings were already back on the street Thursday — as authoritie­s were able to bring only misdemeano­r charges against them.

Isaiah Scott and Chad Bowden, the Harlem men charged with soaking a female civilian on July 21 near the scene of that neighborho­od’s water-bucket attack, walked free without bail late Wednesday at Manhattan criminal court.

The men, respective­ly 23 and 28, were hit with charges including criminal mischief and harassment because the water fried the unsuspecti­ng woman’s cellphone, prosecutor­s allege.

In Brooklyn, the reputed Crips gangbanger charged with tossing a pail of water onto a uniformed cop’s head on July 20 was hit with $3,500 bail at his own arraignmen­t but walked free after posting the sum.

Courtney Thompson — who in addition to being a purported member of the crew’s Fresh Gangstas subset is the son of a Department of Correction captain — ruined the officer’s body camera with his alleged stunt, according to court papers.

Meanwhile Thursday, detectives detained two suspects in a third caught-onvideo drenching that went down in The Bronx, according to police sources.

The duo was not immediatel­y identified or charged, but sources said they’re believed to be among around a dozen young men and women recorded inundating two female cops keeping watch outside Morrisania’s Herman Ridder Junior HS on Wednesday.

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