ELMONT, NY. \u2014 A 50-year-old man was arrested Friday night after he covered himself in flammable liquid while standing in the lobby of a NCPD precinct, police said. <\/p>\n
Nassau County police said a 25-year-old woman was filing a domestic incident report Friday night at the fifth precinct when the 50-year-old man, the subject of the incident report, showed up outside the precinct. Upon seeing the 50-year-old man, police said the woman ran back into the precinct and asked for police to assist her. <\/p>\n
At this point, the 50-year-old man, standing in the entryway to the precinct, started to pour a flammable liquid on himself, police said. Two police officers and a detective tackled him to the ground, police said. <\/p>\n
After the incident, the 50-year-old was taken into police custody and hospitalized for evaluation, police said. Hospitalized along with him, police said, was a police officer injured during the arrest. <\/p>\n
The man is now charged with second-degree assault, second-degree attempted arson and three second-degree counts of criminal contempt, police said. His arraignment will take place once medically practical, police said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ELMONT, NY. \u2014 A 50-year-old man was arrested Friday night after he covered himself in flammable liquid while…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":157879,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-157878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}