Original Article COOKIE D'OH! SILLY COP BUSTS SCOUT DAD By LARRY CELONA and KATE SHEEHY March 8, 2005 -- A bozo Brooklyn cop took a bite out of crime by busting the dad of a Girl Scout for "not being properly licensed" as the child sold cookies. "It was horrible my granddaughter was scared stiff, and her father was humiliated," the child's grandmother, Grace Taras, told The Post last night. The outrageous arrest unfolded at around 4:50 p.m. Saturday in front of 162 Bedford Ave. in Williamsburg, the family's old neighborhood. It's where Grace Marie Louis and her parents have been coming to sell the cookies since the girl was in first grade, her relatives said. The 13-year-old Scout, from Bethpage, L.I., had boxes that residents had already ordered and was delivering them and collecting money, relatives said. The teen also had extra boxes to sell in the family's van parked nearby. Grace's dad, Hoi "Howard" Louis, was helping her on the street while her mother, Ann who has multiple sclerosis and must use a wheelchair at times waited in the van. "That's when a police captain pulled up like Mighty Joe," Taras said. The irate grandma said the captain and another cop from the 94th Precinct hopped out of an unmarked car and approached the family. "A man said, 'Get over here!' " Ann Louis recalled. "I said, 'What the heck?' "Gracie looked at me, and I said, 'Gracie, get in the car!' I didn't know who it was." Then, "all of a sudden, the policeman screamed, 'Take our hands out of your pocket!' " to her husband, Ann Louis said. The officers proceeded to slap the flabbergasted dad with a summons, which reads, in part, "Defendant observed offering for sale cookies w/o being properly licensed." "My granddaughter didn't say a word because she was too frightened," Taras said. "She's very upset. Her father's very upset." Apparently, the cop with the captain was upset, too. He did not want to ticket the dad but was strong-armed by his superior, police sources said. Taras said that when she called the police commissioner's office to gripe, even they seemed appalled. "All I heard them say was, 'What?! Girl Scouts?' " she said.