TROY, N.Y. -- A patrol officer with an eye for detail arrested a city man early Sunday in connection with several recent crimes.
According to Capt. John Cooney, a police spokesman, patrols were investigating a report of an assault on a woman about midnight on 4th Avenue. She told investigators that two men, one with a handgun, struck her about the head.
Police were looking for the suspects when Patrol Officer Carlos Nazario spotted two men about 12:25 a.m. hurrying down 124th Street toward Sixth Avenue. Nazario noted their clothing, but the men fled, Cooney said.
Nazario followed one of the men, Kamari Shuiab, 21, of 21st Street, and Shuiab lay face down on Sixth Avenue, Cooney said. The officer didn't have probable cause for arrest, but was speaking with Shuiab when the officer noticed Shuiab was no longer wearing the jacket Nazario had earlier noticed.
Patrols in the area checked the route Shuiab took and found a jacket on Sixth Avenue that was from the same manufacturer and model type as the pants Shuiab wore, Cooney said.
Police reported they saw in the jacket pocket a fully loaded, hammer-back 9mm semi-automatic handgun with four ready rounds of ammunition.
Police said Shuiab and another person who has not yet been identified were responsible for an attempted robbery Saturday evening and the gun had been stolen in a burglary earlier this month.
Shuiab was arraigned on three counts of criminal possession of a weapon, assault and criminal possession of stolen property. He was sent to the Rensselaer County Jail with no bail.
The charges include the assault earlier Sunday.
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