A Manhattan man on Monday was sentenced to prison after he struck and killed an off-duty police officer on the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway and left the scene.
Carlos Almanzar Toribio, 31, was sentenced to an indeterminate term of one-and-one-third to four years in prison after pleading guilty to one count of leaving the scene of an incident in which serious injury or death results on April 21, 2026, according to Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez.
On August 27, 2025, at approximately 8:45am, on the BQE near Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn, Jay Peña, an off-duty NYPD officer, was driving his personal motorcycle westbound on the highway when he and his motorcycle were struck by and forced under a box truck driven by Toribio. The victim was ejected onto the roadway, while the defendant continued to operate the truck, dragging the victim’s motorcycle for nearly 600 feet before the defendant stopped his vehicle…