Suffolk County Police arrested a man for assault after he allegedly stabbed an off-duty NYPD officer who had stopped him from stealing items from a parked vehicle in Lindenhurst.
Two off-duty NYPD officers observed a man getting into a parked vehicle in a driveway on 40th Street, off Buffalo Avenue, on October 9 at approximately 1:05 a.m. The man attempted to run away when the officers approached him. The officers caught up with the man several hundred yards down the block where he allegedl stabbed one of them in the left leg. They held the man until First Precinct officers arrived and arrested him.
The 28-year-old officer who was stabbed was transported to a local hospital to be treated for a serious, but non-life-threatening, injury.
First Squad detectives charged Royal Hooks, 27, of 374 Pearl St., New York, with Assault in the Second Degree. Hooks is also being charged with Petit Larceny. He is being held at the First Precinct and is expected to be arraigned at First District Court in Central Islip on October 9.