The man allegedly responsible for mowing into a cop with a stolen car during a traffic stop in Brooklyn earlier this month after police closed in on him.
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A Queens man allegedly responsible for mowing into a cop with a stolen car during a traffic stop in Brooklyn earlier this month is now behind bars.
According to police sources, 20-year-old Allen Garcia turned himself in to the 90th Precinct‘s Williamsburg stationhouse early on April 21.
Cops say Garcia was stopped by members of the NYPD Community Response Team at 8 p.m. on April 4 at the intersection of Wallabout Street and Broadway in Williamsburg after they spotted a white 2018 Q50S Infiniti with tinted windows and mismatched out-of-state license plates from Montana.
As officers left their cars and approached, authorities said, Garcia allegedly accelerated forward and struck two police vehicles before reversing the Infiniti and colliding with a police officer. He then sped away in the Infiniti southbound on Wallabout Street.
The officer sustained minor injuries and bruising to the lower body. He was transported by EMS to a local area hospital in stable condition.
Later that night, the vehicle was found abandoned outside of 40-12 28th Ave., a supermarket in Astoria, Queens.
Police later learned that the Infiniti had been stolen on April 2 within the confines of the 75th Precinct in eastern Brooklyn. Its license plates, having been removed and discarded, were discovered the next day.
Garcia was questioned throughout Tuesday at the 90th Precinct before being led out of the stationhouse in cuffs by detectives that afternoon. He did not answer for the alleged crime and remained silent as he was placed into the back of a police vehicle.
He is charged with three counts of assault, reckless endangerment, leaving the scene of an incident without reporting – personal injury, obstructing governmental administration, and unlawful fleeing a police officer in a motor vehicle.
