A Manhattan man faces multiple charges after he stabbed an off-duty NYPD officer from Long Island who stopped him from stealing items from a parked vehicle in Lindenhurst early Thursday, Suffolk County police said.

According to Suffolk County Police Department Commissioner Kevin Catalina, the 28-year-old officer returned home from work Wednesday evening along with his brother. Both are anti-crime NYPD officers who work in Queens South, Catalina said at a news conference Thursday.

Around 1 a.m., Catalina said, they were awoken by lights outside their home. "They got up and saw a man who appeared to be breaking into cars. He had a mask on."

The suspect — who police identified as Royal Hooks, 27, of Pearl Street in the Two Bridges section of lower Manhattan — was observed getting into a p

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