An NYPD cop who was suspended without pay last year for allegedly using an illegal chokehold has a new legal tangle on his hands.
Officer David Afanador — who is awaiting trial for the June 21 alleged chokehold incident on a Queens boardwalk — was arrested Sunday morning and charged with firing a .9mm semi-automatic handgun into the ocean on Long Island, sources told The Post.
Afanador was arrested by Long Beach police officers around 7 a.m. after cops received a 911 call regarding shots fired on the boardwalk near Frankly Boulevard, the sources said.
Charges were pending in the case.
Long Beach police and the NYPD did not immediately respond to requests for comment and information Sunday.
Afanador could also not be reached for comment.
The 40-year-old cop pleaded not guilty in the chokehold case on June 25.
Afanador, a 15-year veteran of the force at the time, was also charged with pistol-whipping a teenager in 2016 but was acquitted in that case.
With Post wires