Crime & Safety

Crime Blotter: Police Officer Assaulted in NHP

A Third Precinct officer needed to have surgery as a result of an incident on Friday.

A police officer had to have surgery on his broken hand at Winthrop University Hospital as a result of trying to help someone off the ground in the parking lot of 2002 Jericho Turnpike Friday at 2:55 a.m., according to a police report.

 

John Zuluaga, 19, of Elmont, allegedly fought with both a security officer and police officer during this incident, the report said. He was arrested for the assault of a police officer, the report said. Zuluaga was arraigned in Hempstead's Fire District Court later that day.

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