{"id":312653,"date":"2026-08-03T17:31:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T17:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/312653\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T17:31:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T17:31:08","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-brooklyn-man-arrested-for-scaling-brooklyn-bridge-plunging-into-east-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/312653\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Brooklyn Man Arrested For Scaling Brooklyn Bridge Plunging Into East River"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">A Brooklyn man faces a slew of charges after climbing one of the Brooklyn Bridge&#8217;s towers and jumping into the East River on Sunday afternoon, according to the NYPD.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Galymzhan Abaildayev, 44, was seen climbing the bridge&#8217;s north tower at 2:28 p.m. after officers, along with members of the NYPD Emergency Service Unit and Harbor Unit, responded to a 911 call for a person spotted at the top of the bridge. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">When officers arrived, Abaildayev then jumped into the East River, according to police. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Harbor units removed Abaildayev from the water and transported him to a local hospital in stable condition.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Abaildayev was originally not placed under arrest. However, upon further investigation, he was later arrested at 5:43 p.m. and charged with reckless endangerment, making graffiti, public lewdness, criminal trespass and disorderly conduct following his plunge into the river. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Brooklyn man faces a slew of charges after climbing one of the Brooklyn Bridge&#8217;s towers and jumping&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":312654,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-312653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312653","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=312653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}