A field truck driver who had no license plate was arrested within the hit-and-run dying of an off-duty NYPD cop driving his bike house from work, cops mentioned.
Carlos Almanzar Toribio, 30, was arrested hours after the fiery crash that threw the cop from his bike on the westbound Brooklyn-Queens Expressway close to Atlantic round 8:30 a.m., authorities mentioned.
Detectives reviewed video from the scene that helped them determine the field truck, and Toribio was cuffed round 7:30 p.m., police mentioned.
The Washington Heights resident, who has no prior arrests, was charged with leaving the scene of an accident leading to dying, working an unregistered automobile and driving with no license plate, police mentioned.
The 30-year-old officer – assigned to the midnight tour on the 84th Precinct in downtown Brooklyn – was driving a Yamaha R1 bike on the westbound expressway when he was struck round 8:30 a.m. close to Exit 27, authorities and sources mentioned.
Footage obtained by the Submit reveals the bicycle owner within the moments earlier than the crash, whizzing alongside the expressway within the outermost lanes within the path of the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge.
The field truck driver fled the scene, and it’s potential he could not have even identified he’d hit somebody, the sources mentioned on the time.
Footage posted on X by Williamsburg Information reveals the cop mendacity lifeless on the highway as his bike went up in flames ft away.
The officer – who had not formally been recognized by the division by Thursday – was taken to NYU Langone Brooklyn Hospital, the place he succumbed to his accidents.
His title was not formally launched pending household notification. On-line information present he joined the NYPD in February of 2021.
