Butterfingers NYC suspect drops gun in front of cops before falling down subway station stairs

This was nary criminal mastermind.

Two cops operating a Brooklyn subway level past week were stunned erstwhile a strapped-hanger exited a train and dropped loaded Ruger pistol correct astatine their feet.

He scooped it up and ran — and proceeded to autumn down a formation of stairs.

The antheral and female partners yet caught up to Stanley Spencer, 39, aft nan 3:30 p.m. fumble connected May 2 astatine nan Pennsylvania Avenue Station.

“I stake he was trying to set [the weapon successful his waistband] truthful they can’t spot it and BOOM he drops it,” said retired NYPD detective and John Jay College adjunct professor Michael Alcazar.

With nan cops basking connected his heels, Spencer fell while while descending nan station’s stairs but made it extracurricular and tried to hide nan 9mm pistol nether a car, according to constabulary and a title revenge successful Brooklyn Criminal Court.

The weapon had 7 bullets successful nan magazine, nan title states.

Spencer was charged pinch weapon possession, constabulary said.

He has 14 anterior arrests that are each sealed, constabulary sources said. One of nan arrests was for limb possession, nan sources said.

Gun arrests successful nan city’s subway strategy are down 28% wide truthful acold this twelvemonth complete nan aforesaid play successful 2024, from 25 to 18, NYPD information show.

Alcazar said further officers assigned to nan subway strategy by Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch were acting arsenic a deterrent.

“I would property nan weapon arrests being down to nan further officers successful nan subways,” Alcazar said, noting that nan cops are stopping alleged “fare beaters.” “You don’t want to jump a turnstile erstwhile you person a gun.”