Cops Pull Over Uninsured Driver Parked At Hydrant, Find Surprise In Hidden Compartment

We may have a new contender for Bensonhurst’s dumbest outlaw.

Yeuyrs Urena, 19, was stopped for parking his uninsured black Toyota Camry — with extra-tinted windows — in front of a fire hydrant at Quentin Road and West 9th Street on Monday, October 5, at 4:45pm, according to the NYPD.

“He seemed like a good kid, but it looked like he was about to engage in a heroin transaction,” said the 62nd Precinct’s Field Intelligence Officer Sergeant Jeremy Berson.

Sure enough, police say they found five glassines of heroin in the vehicle and arrested Urena.

After bringing the car to the precinct, cops smelled marijuana and searched it again, turning up bags of cocaine and finding a hidden compartment in the center console with “a cloth bag sticking out of it.” After obtaining a search warrant the next day, police recovered 247 glassines of heroin, 17 zips of cocaine, 25 alprazolam pills, marijuana, and a wad of cash from the compartment, according to police.

The 62nd Precinct posted a photo of the seized items on Twitter with a tongue-in-cheek word of caution to other drug dealers on Wednesday:

Urena was immediately charged with criminal possession of controlled substance, violation of local law (for the window tint), and failure to produce insurance information, according to police. The following day he was slapped with additional charges of possession and intent to sell, plus a marijuana violation, cops said.

Urena is not the first alleged criminal to be nabbed by the 62nd Precinct during a traffic stop this year. In April, a man was arrested for impersonating an NYPD officer after trying to cut off none other than the precinct’s former Commanding Officer William Taylor — all while blaring his fake sirens.

Update [6:30pm]: This article has been updated with corrected information from the 62nd Precinct.