Crime & Safety

Female Summons Cop Injured While Arresting Known Criminal

The police officer sustained minor injuries.

In a brazen attack on Smith and Sackett streets Monday at 11 a.m., a known neighborhood "bad guy" got into a scuffle with a female police officer who was attempting to arrest him for burglary, police officials and sources said.

The female officer, a member of the , spotted the creep with a bicycle, said a police source. When the officer approached him, he threw the bike at her and tried to flee, but was apprehended and arrested by additional officers from the 76 Precinct.

The man has a history of stealing bikes and selling them, the source said, and has a "rap sheet bigger than Atlantic Avenue."

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The officer, who was patrolling alone as summons cops do, suffered minor injuries to her wrist and hand, police officials said.

The creep was arrested and charged with assualting a police officer and for burglary.

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