New York City police arrested a man with a history of mental illness after he drove on sidewalks and mowed down mopeds in Brooklyn, injuring eight people.
spoke during a press conference on Monday afternoon at Columbia Street and Hamilton Avenue in Brooklyn, in front of the U-Haul truck that NYPD officers were able to stop.
Police told Fox News the suspect was a 62-year-old man from Nevada, adding that they believe he arrived in New York City on Feb. 10. Along the way, police noted, the driver of the U-Haul driver was pulled over at least once in the Carolinas for reckless driving. "Very frequently he’ll choose to skip out on his medications and do something like this," Stephen Sor, 30, told the AP in an interview outside his Brooklyn home."This isn’t the first time he’s been arrested. It’s not the first time he’s gone to jail."
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