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A Manhattan man was arrested early Wednesday for stabbing an off-duty NYPD officer who tried to stop him from stealing items from a parked vehicle in Lindenhurst, cops said.
Royal Hooks, 27, was allegedly seen by two off-duty NYPD officers getting into a parked vehicle in a driveway on 40th Street, off Buffalo Avenue, about 1:05 a.m., Suffolk County police said. When the officers approached, Hooks tried to run away.
The officers chased Hooks and caught up with him several hundred yards down the block, where he allegedly stabbed one of them in the left leg, police said. The officers then restrained Hooks until Suffolk COunty POlice First Precinct officers arrived and took him into custody.
The 28-year-old injured officer was taken to a local hospital with a serious but non-life-threatening injury, police said.
Charged with second-degree assault and petit larceny, Hooks was held at the First Precinct and was expected to be arraigned Thursday in First District Court in Central Islip.
Top photo: NYPD patrol car (Unsplash).
