Suffolk County Police today arrested a man for assault after he stabbed an off-duty NYPD officer who had stopped him from stealing items from a parked vehicle in Lindenhurst. Two off-duty NYPD officers observed a man getting into a parked vehicle in a driveway on 40th Street, off Buffalo Avenue, at approximately 1:05 a.m. The man attempted to run away when the officers approached him. The officers caught up with the man several hundred yards down the block where he stabbed one of them in the left leg. They held the man until First Precinct officers arrived and arrested him. The 28-year-old officer who was stabbed was transported to a local hospital to be treated for a serious but non-life-threatening injury. First Squad detectives charged Royal Hooks, 27, of 374 Pearl St.

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