Cops: Knife-wielding man threatens TV crew

A passerby was arrested after he disrupted the Animal Planet reality show "Tanked" by brandishing a kitchen knife Saturday and threatening to kill the television crew, Suffolk County police said.

The menacing happened just after 2 p.m. when Carlos Borbon, 29, of Brookhaven, was walking on Main Street in Babylon and spotted the "Tanked" production crew at Plessers Appliance, police said.

He got into an "altercation" with the crew -- a police spokesman said he didn't know what triggered the dispute -- pulled out the knife and made death threats.

Police were called, Borbon fled and appliance store workers chased him down Main Street. He was soon arrested at Jacqueline's Patisserie, a French pastry shop also on Main Street.

Police say he'll be jailed overnight for a Sunday arraignment at First District Court in Central Islip on charges that include menacing, resisting arrest and criminal possession of a weapon.

According to the Animal Planet website, "Tanked . . . dunks viewers" into "the antics of two brothers-in-law as they run the largest aquarium manufacturing company in the nation."

No one from the show, the appliance store, the French pastry shop or Borbon's family could be reached Saturday night for comment.