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NYPD cops stopped a teenage cyclist riding on a Brooklyn sidewalk Wednesday, frisked him and discovered he was packing a loaded .38-caliber handgun.
Jeff Chandler was pulled over at about 12:30 p.m., when two officers spotted him putting pedestrians in danger on Sutter Avenue in Brownsville.
“When this kid on the bike saw us, his eyes got super wide, and he cut right into the street. He was visibly shaken,” NYPD rookie Kevin Fulham said.
The cop said he yelled, “Hey, come here for a second,” and the teen nervously hopped off the bike and reached toward his waistband.
“He just reached with his right hand toward the front, and I said, ‘Do me a favor, buddy. Keep your hands away from your body,’ ” Fulham recalled.
The cops asked for ID but Chandler didn’t have any and instead gave his name and birth date.
Fulham and his partner, Gregory Wallace, called their precinct and found the teen had a bust for selling marijuana and was wanted for ignoring a littering summons from December.
As the cops were talking to their supervisor, the cyclist allegedly reached near his waistband again.
That was all cops needed to frisk him.
The cops patted Chandler down and allegedly found a six-shot, .38-caliber revolver with three bullets in the cylinder in his waistband — right where he had been reaching.
A veteran cop familiar with the case praised the duo for perfect execution of stop-and-frisk.
“They followed procedure, and it turned out exactly as it was supposed to,” he said.
The cops said they knew there had been three stickups in the past two weeks around the Van Dyke Houses in Brownsville in which armed thugs stole iPhones, cash and credit cards from people.
There had also been several recent shootings in the high-crime neighborhood in which the gunmen fled on two wheels.
“A fair amount of the shootings are done by kids on bikes, where they ride up to the person, shoot and ride away on the bike,” Fulham said.
It was the first time Fulham pulled a gun off the street using the stop-and-frisk techniques he learned in the academy.
“It was a classic stop, question and frisk, where there’s a bulge, furtive movement, and then him reaching toward his waistband,” Fulham said.