Two dumb-and-dumber teens were busted with a gun in Brooklyn after they hopped into a vehicle to make their getaway — and it turned out to be an unmarked cop car, police sources said Monday.
The police vehicle had been dispatched to the East Flatbush area around 12:30 a.m. Sunday after the department’s new ShotSpotter system indicated that six bullets had just been fired around 980 Linden Blvd., sources said.
The teens, both 15, weren’t the ones who fired that gun, sources said. But one of them had a .38-caliber handgun on them, sources said. And when they saw arriving Officers Joel Crooms and Dalsh Veve, who were in plainclothes and out of their car, the teens ran to the vehicle on nearby Church Avenue to try to flee — thinking it was a livery cab, sources said.
The teens quickly hopped out after realizing they had just entered a police vehicle, according to sources.
The officers spotted the teens running from their unmarked squad car and chased them down. The handgun was recovered at the scene, and both teens were charged with criminal possession of a weapon.
The gun used to shoot the six bullets has yet to be recovered, sources said.
The NYPD began using ShotSpotter on March 16. It alerts cops to shootings by picking up the sound of gunfire.