Saturday afternoon at Brooklyn’s Kings Plaza turned surreal when what started as an alleged car theft ended with a police search of Mill Basin and one suspect nowhere to be found in the water, authorities said. Officers detained one person near the mall, while a second allegedly bolted toward the shoreline, jumped into the basin and disappeared beneath the surface as shoppers watched.
Police units lined the waterfront and scanned the area around the parking lot as the search unfolded. As of the latest reports, authorities had not released the suspects’ names or any formal charges.
What police say
Two people are accused of trying to steal a car outside Kings Plaza, and one was taken into custody while the second jumped into Mill Basin to evade…..