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A Hollywood rescue
Police use helicopter, scuba gear in Prospect Park drama
Photos by Paul Martinka
The NYPD Aviation unit
responded to reports of
an allegedly emotionally
distrubed person in
Prospect Park Lake on
Aug. 1. The dramatic rescue
attracted a crowd.
Police Department reps did
not respond to multiple requests
for information about
the cost of the rescue operation.
where officers strapped him
to a waiting gurney, before
paramedics ferried him to
Park Slope’s Methodist Hospital
for psychiatric evaluation,
cops said.
Brooklyn man charged
after drenching cops
By Emily Davenport
for Brooklyn Paper
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 onduty,
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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Brooklyn Paper
Scuba cops rappelled
from a helicopter into Prospect
Park Lake amid the very
dramatic rescue of an allegedly
“erratic” swimmer on
Aug. 1.
Parkgoers gazed in awe as
the police chopper swooped
into action, its rotors sending
ripples through the usually
placid lake as an action
squad of two police scuba divers
descended on the clothed
swimmer about a hundred feet
off the coast of Brooklyn’s
Backyard.
Police claim the man acted
in an “erratic fashion” as he
plunged into Prospect Park’s
largest body of water — an
abyss that descends to an interminable
maximum depth
of seven feet — shortly before
noon on Thursday, ignoring
park rules that forbid
swimming in the lake,
and not to mention the peril
of blue-green algae , a cyanobacteria
that produces
two forms of deadly toxins,
and has plagued the lake every
summer since 2013.
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team dutifully terminated
the man’s afternoon swim by
dragging him to the shore,
A Brooklyn man was
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soaking two traffic cops
with a water bottle in
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