The New York City Police Department arrested state Assemblyman Eddie Gibbs on Thursday and took him into custody.
Gibbs allegedly interfered with police as they pulled over his brother’s vehicle in Manhattan.
“The NYPD’s Strategic Response Group stopped the Harlem Democrat’s sibling as he drove in East Harlem around 1:30 p.m.,” the New York Post reports.
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Gibbs, a legislative ally of New York City Mayor Eric Adams, is the first formerly incarcerated New York Assembly member.
From the New York Post:
It’s not the first time Gibbs was caught in legal trouble.
He dealt crack cocaine in the late 80s before he was locked up on murder charges.
Gibbs spent a year in Rikers before working out a plea deal to reduce his charges to manslaughter for a shooting he claimed was in self-defense while his home was getting robbed.
In 2022, he became the first person elected to the state legislature who had served time in prison.
Gibbs was recently accused of illegally firing a former employee as he battled a health crisis that resulted in him