Chaos erupts outside Brooklyn criminal courtroom in arraignment for hit-and-run driver accused in officer’s death

Chaos erupted in court Tuesday after 30-year-old Carlos Almanazar Toribio faced new charges in the deadly hit-and-run of an off-duty NYPD officer.

News 12 obtained video last month showing a box truck leaving the scene of a motorcycle crash that killed Jay Pena on the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway.

Sources say the victim’s 18-year-old brother attacked an unknown person in the court room. An officer was injured in the struggle…

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