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Narcotics Officer Injured in Brooklyn Hit-And-Run

Associated Press

NEW YORK (AP) - A female narcotics officer was in serious condition Thursday after a hit-and-run accident in Brooklyn, police said.

Police said the officer was conducting a buy-and-bust operation at Himrod Street and Irving Avenue in the Bushwick section at about 2 a.m. when she was hit by a dark-colored vehicle which then fled the scene.

The officer was taken to Bellevue Hospital, where she was in serious condition, police said. Police were searching for one suspect, a man in his 20s.