Metro

Vandal pours ‘gasoline’ on NYPD van : police

A Bronx vandal poured a liquid believed to be gasoline on an occupied NYPD van — which drove off before anything worse happened, police said Saturday

The disturbing incident happened Friday at 10:30 p.m. at Valentine Avenue and East 180th Street in Fordham, not far from the 46th Precinct station house on Ryer Avenue, where a rowdy group was already throwing eggs and trash at the vehicle, cops said.

The vandal was spotted in surveillance footage holding a red gas can and pouring the mystery liquid all over the exterior and the hood of the marked NYPD van — whose driver quickly drove away, police said.

It wasn’t immediately known how many cops were inside the van at the time.

No one was injured, and the vandal remains at large, cops said.

Last month, cops busted a 19-year-old serial arsonist who authorities said has been lighting blazes in the Big Apple since he was 10.

An NYPD van in the Bronx.
A vandal allegedly poured liquid over an NYPD van at Valentine Avenue and East 180th Street in the Bronx. Instagram
An NYPD van in the Bronx.
The driver of the NYPD van immediately drove away after an alleged vandal poured liquid on it. Instagram

Jaden Shaw was charged with setting five separate blazes — including torching an unoccupied NYPD van — in Manhattan on Aug. 6.