Off-duty NYPD cop charged with DWI after crashing sports car in Brooklyn a decade after similar arrest

An off-duty NYPD cop was charged with DWI after he crashed his sports car in Brooklyn — a decade after he faced similar charges over a Queens crash, cops said Sunday.

Joseph King, 35, crashed his 2015 Subaru WRX at E. 16th St. and the Belt Parkway in Coney Island about 4:35 a.m. Saturday, police said.

Off-duty NYPD Officer Joseph King was charged with his second DWI after he crashed his sports car in Brooklyn, cops said Sunday.
Off-duty NYPD Officer Joseph King was charged with his second DWI after he crashed his sports car in Brooklyn, cops said Sunday. (Shutterstock.com)

Responding officers said King had bloodshot eyes and slurred speech and took him to NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn, where he refused a blood test, according to police.

He is charged with driving while intoxicated, driving while ability impaired, and refusing to take a breath test.

King, who works in the NYPD’s Brooklyn South gang squad unit, was arrested for drunken driving in 2010 when he crashed his 2001 Honda Accord against a guardrail on the Belt Parkway near the Cross Bay Blvd. exit in Howard Beach, Queens.

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