Bushwick

After chase, cops nab armed suspect in Brooklyn

July 27, 2015 By Mary Frost Brooklyn Daily Eagle
NYPD Officers Ramon Portillo and Marvin Luis took this Smith & Wesson off the streets of Bushwick Sunday night. Photo courtesy NYPD
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Make that one less gun in the wrong hands in Brooklyn.

Two 83rd Precinct police officers, Ramon Portillo and Marvin Luis, chased down and arrested a Bushwick man armed with a loaded Smith & Wesson handgun Sunday night.

According to NYPD spokesperson Detective Kellyann Ort, the officers responded to a 911 call of a dispute with a firearm in front of 437 Bleecker St. in Bushwick. The caller provided a detailed description of the suspect, Ort said.

Upon arrival, officers Portillo and Luis saw a male fitting the description and observed him tucking a firearm into his waistband.  As the two officers approached him he fled, but the officers chased him inside a residential building at 439 Bleecker Street, where they apprehended him.

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Geovannie Rosario, 23, who was charged with criminal possession of a weapon, lives at 445 Bleecker Street, not far from the scene of his arrest, according to NYPD.

Rosario had previously been arrested for the same crime in June 2014, according to the Downtown Brooklyn Star.

The two officers were working during Crime Reduction Overtime, utilized by Precinct commanders to address spikes in crime.

Overall, crime in the 83rd Precinct is down roughly seven percent this year, as compared to last year. But serious crimes edged up more than two percent in the month ending July 19, as compared to last year.

Deputy Inspector Maximo A. Tolentino heads the 83rd Precinct.

 


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