A man “well known to the NYPD” was arrested after officers found him asleep in a Brooklyn subway station and video showed him clearly with a loaded gun protruding from his waistband.
An NYPD spokesman told The Post that Lourence Costa, 45, was arrested around 6:40 a.m. Sunday after officers saw a black firearm “in clear view” as he walked outside the police precinct at Myrtle Avenue and Broadway in Bed-Stuy.
Body camera footage shows officers approaching a man asleep on a subway staircase, wearing a bright blue and yellow hoodie and with a gun tucked in his waistband.
“Are you OK? Are you OK?” an officer can be heard asking as he gently wakes the sleeping suspect, while another officer can be seen grabbing a gun from the handcuffed suspect’s waistband.
“It doesn’t get any easier than this!” the NYPD said as it released video of the arrest.
“In today’s ‘Unbelievable Story,’ a 45-year-old man (well known to the NYPD) thought nothing of falling asleep on the steps of a Brooklyn train station this morning with an illegally possessed, loaded firearm exposed to the public.” NYPD Traffic Chief Michael M. Kemper wrote to X:
“It definitely wasn’t the best decision he made,” Kemper added.
An NYPD spokesman declined to elaborate on how Costa was known to the department.
Costa faces multiple charges of possession of an illegal loaded weapon, police said. He was taken into custody without incident.
