{"id":130406,"date":"2020-12-10T17:44:43","date_gmt":"2020-12-10T14:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/nypd-busts-suspect-in-torching-of-cop-cruiser\/"},"modified":"2020-12-10T17:44:43","modified_gmt":"2020-12-10T14:44:43","slug":"nypd-busts-suspect-in-torching-of-cop-cruiser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/nypd-busts-suspect-in-torching-of-cop-cruiser\/","title":{"rendered":"#NYPD busts suspect in torching of cop cruiser"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#NYPD busts suspect in torching of cop cruiser<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>They got a hot tip.<\/p>\n<p>Cops this week busted one of three men they say lit a cop car on fire in Brooklyn during George Floyd protests more than six months ago, authorities said Thursday morning.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Matthew Piscitello, 21, of Dyker Heights, was identified through tips and taken into custody at 4:40 p.m. Wednesday in connection to the May 29 incident, in which cops say he tossed a flaming item into a police van in Fort Greene.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Piscitello and two others allegedly used incendiary devices to send the marked, unoccupied police van up in flames at the corner of South Portland and Dekalb Avenues around 9 p.m., as a crowd stood around them, video released days after the incident shows.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Piscitello was charged with three counts of criminal mischief, two counts each of arson and reckless endangerment, and one count of riot, police said.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_16786468\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-16786468 lazyload\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/12\/nypd-van-fire-01.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=300 300w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/12\/nypd-van-fire-01.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=640 640w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/12\/nypd-van-fire-01.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1280 1280w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/12\/nypd-van-fire-01.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/12\/nypd-van-fire-01.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2000 2000w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span>Matthew Piscitello allegedly used incendiary devices to light a cop car on fire.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">DCPI<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>He was arrested once before, for criminal mischief in July of 2018, cops said.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" alt=\"Matthew Piscitello  allegedly used incendiary devices to light a cop car on fire.\" class=\"wp-image-16786484 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/12\/nypd-van-fire-02.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=300 300w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/12\/nypd-van-fire-02.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=640 640w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/12\/nypd-van-fire-02.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1280 1280w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/12\/nypd-van-fire-02.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/12\/nypd-van-fire-02.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2000 2000w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>One of three men cops say lit a cop car on fire in Brooklyn.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">DCPI<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The other two suspects were still on the loose Thursday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>One is described as a man seen in a red hoodie and later a different, multi-colored one \u2014 and another man wearing a white T-shirt and blue jeans with holes.\n            <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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Cops this week busted one of three men they say lit a cop car on fire in Brooklyn during George Floyd protests more than six months ago, authorities said Thursday morning.\u00a0 Matthew Piscitello, 21, of Dyker Heights, was identified through tips and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":130407,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/12\/nypd-van-fire-01.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[83265,70231,71760,4950,5044,1621],"class_list":["post-130406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-12-10-20","tag-arrests","tag-arson","tag-brooklyn","tag-nypd","tag-protests"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}