US EditionNYPD: Police Probing Reports of Person ‘Parachuting’ Off Verrazzano Arrest Man in Brooklyn Park
Jonathan Warren, 40, parachuted off the city’s longest bridge moments after the marathon, prompting a reckless endangerment charge by NYPD officers.
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NYPD: Police probing reports of person ‘parachuting’ off Verrazzano arrest man in Brooklyn park
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Police officers investigating reports about an “unlicensed aircraft” and an individual “parachuting” off of the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge arrested a man in a park in his Brooklyn community on Sunday, the NYPD said.The arrest came after an individual was allegedly hang-gliding from the span, according to a report in the Daily News.
Hang glider arrested after jumping off Verrazzano Bridge
A 40-year-old man was arrested Sunday for allegedly jumping off the Verrazzano Bridge on the Brooklyn side and going hang gliding, authorities said Monday. Police say they initially got a 911 call for an unlicensed aircraft around 5 p.m. The glider landed in Brooklyn’s Calvert Vaux Park, where he was arrested about two hours after his leap. No injuries were...
The paraglider landed in Brooklyn's Calvert Vaux Park, where he was arrested approximately two hours after the jump.
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