(Washington Insider Magazine) – Albert Plummer threw a glass bottle through the window of a police van in Harlem while an officer was inside, charged with assault, menacing, criminal mischief and reckless endangerment.
A man was arrested for throwing a bottle at a police van in Harlem Saturday night, and another man was also arrested for trying to torch an NYPD car in Midtown hours later, authorities said.
Statement of Police Sources
Some police sources stated that the first incident was not linked to the local protests over the fatal beating of Tire Nichols in Memphis and that it was not clear if the second incident was, as the suspect did not say a word during the crime.
The vandal identified as Albert Plummer, 38, threw a glass bottle into the rear driver’s side window of a police van in front of the Apollo Theater at West 125th Street and Frederick Douglass Boulevard around 10:40 p.m. Saturday, according to officials.
A police officer assigned to the Apollo Theater crew was inside the van, a spokesman for the New York Police Department said. The bottle would have destroyed the window of the police vehicle, according to the spokesman.
Plummer was charged with assault, threats, criminal mischief and reckless endangerment, officers said.
The suspect has previously been arrested about 40 times and has a history of fights with police officers and criminal mischief, authorities revealed.
During the second weekend event in Manhattan, officers observed a subject attempting to light a napkin that was in the gas tank of a police vehicle at 9 a.m. Sunday, the law enforcement representative said. police.
The event, which was filmed by a security camera, took place in front of the NYPD’s Midtown South Precinct on West 35th Street.
The 24-year-old was captured a few blocks away at West 37th Street and Eighth Avenue and has charges pending against him, the New York Post reported. The suspect, whose identity was not released, but it was learned that he has four previous arrests for making threats and terrorist attacks, the sources said.
For its part, the city’s Patrolmen’s Charitable Association union issued an alert to its members Sunday that included a photo of the suspect in the second crime and called on them to “carefully inspect both Department vehicles as their personal vehicles in search of any possible sabotage”.
This article is written by Marlyn Montilla.
