Cops: Brentwood man threw brick at Suffolk police vehicle
Suffolk police arrested and charged a Brentwood man Thursday after he drove an ATV past a crash in the hamlet and threw a brick at an occupied police vehicle at the scene, authorities said.
Police officers were investigating the motor vehicle crash at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday at MacArthur and Doolittle streets in Brentwood when Alexander Bustos, 23, operating the unregistered ATV, drove by "at a high rate of speed and threw a brick at the police car," Suffolk police said in a news release Thursday night.
The brick struck the police vehicle, which was occupied by an officer and a person in custody, and caused damage to the passenger side window, according to police. Neither occupant was injured. Police did not immediately release information on a possible motive for the attack.
After an investigation, officers from the Third Precinct in Bay Shore arrested Bustos about 3 p.m. Thursday at his job at the Heartland Executive Park in Deer Park, police said. Bustos was charged with first-degree reckless endangerment and second-degree criminal mischief.
He was being held overnight at the Third Precinct and is scheduled to be arraigned Friday at First District Court in Central Islip.
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