Former NYPD Chief of Internal Affairs Joseph Reznick harkened back to his days on patrol — grabbing two teens trespassing in his backyard in Queens this week, police sources said.
Reznick, 72, held the suspects —15 and 17 — until officers from the 105th Precinct arrived. The teens were charged with trespassing and drug possession — Oxycodone pills — police said.
The incident happened just before 8 p.m. Wednesday at his Bellerose home on 89th Ave.
Sources said Reznick spotted the two suspects climbing a fence into his backyard, where he grabbed them and called 911.
It wasn’t clear if Reznick, who did not return a request for comment, was armed.
Reznick was forced out of the NYPD in January 2022 shortly after Eric Adams became mayor.
As Reznick in 2014 neared his 63rd birthday, the mandatory retirement age for cops, then-Commissioner Bill Bratton gave Reznick a civilian title, deputy commissioner, allowing him to stay on as head of Internal Affairs.
He joined the NYPD in 1973 and was in charge of the detective squad in the 34th Precinct in 1991, when the body of a naked 4-year-old girl dubbed “Baby Hope” was found in a cooler in woods along the Henry Hudson Parkway in Inwood.
The case gnawed at him and other investigators for years.
Flowers surround the grave site at the St. Raymond Cemetery, Bronx for “Baby Hope” who was later identified as Anjelica Castillo.
Bryan Pace for New York Daily News Flowers surround the grave of “Baby Hope,” who was later identified as Anjelica Castillo, at the St. Raymond Cemetery, Bronx.
In 2013, Baby Hope was identified as Angelica Castillo, and a cousin, Conrado Juarez, was arrested, authorities accusing him of molesting and suffocating the child. Juarez died of cancer in 2018 while behind bars and awaiting trial.
