Wake, funeral planned for NYPD Sgt. Patrick Divers
Photo credit: NYPD | Sgt. Patrick Divers, 51, part of the Brooklyn North narcotics team, was in a car, on duty near Myrtle and Nostrand avenues, when he began feeling chest pains about 10:30 a.m., police said. (Feb. 1, 2013)
A funeral Mass will be celebrated Wednesday for a decorated NYPD sergeant from Levittown who suffered a fatal heart attack Friday morning during a narcotics operation in Brooklyn.
Sgt. Patrick Divers, 51, a member of the Brooklyn North narcotics squad, began convulsing as he sat in a police car near Myrtle and Nostrand avenues at 10:30 a.m. Fellow officers rushed him to nearby Woodhull Medical...