A Brooklyn man was arrested for allegedly soaking two traffic cops with a water bottle in Queens last week.
After receiving multiple Crime Stoppers tips, police arrested the suspect at his Arlington Avenue apartment at around 8 a.m. on Aug. 1. He was taken into custody without incident and charged with harassment and obstructing governmental administration.
Police say that at 2:34 p.m. on July 24, Larosa allegedly approached two on-duty, uniformed NYPD Traffic Enforcement Agents that were working at the intersection of 86th Street and Jamaica Avenue in Woodhaven and sprayed a water bottle at them. Larosa then allegedly fled the scene in an unknown direction.
The Aug. 1 arrest follows the July 24 arrest of a Brownsville man who allegedly doused two cops with water in East New York on July 20.
The recent incidents, along with a similar one in Harlem, have gone viral on social media and drawn widespread condemnation from politicians, police unions, and senior police officials.
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