A young man busted Thursday on charges he tried use a burning cloth glove to torch a police car in Midtown might have gotten away with it if his gold-rimmed car was less conspicuous, court papers show.
Victor Sanchez-Santa, 19, was arrested at his Queens home on charges of leaving the burning cloth glove beneath a marked NYPD car at W. 42nd St. near Tenth Avenue around 1:30 a.m. June 9, Manhattan federal prosecutors said.
Sanchez-Santa was behind the wheel of a two-door Honda Civic sedan with gold rims, court papers show.
Surveillance footage shows he got out of the car, walked to a parked NYPD vehicle, and then then back toward the passenger side of his Honda, according to court papers. Sanchez-Santa then pulled out a glove, lit it on fire, and tossed it onto the pavement beneath the police car before driving away, prosecutors charge.