Drunken Firefighter Arrested In Downtown Brooklyn, Cops Say

DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN, NY — An FDNY firefighter reportedly busted in a 2016 Queens bar brawl was arrested for drunken driving in Downtown Brooklyn early Saturday morning, police said. Michael Profeta, 37, was spotted driving erratically while heading west on the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway near the Wythe Avenue exit around 12:30 a.m., the NYPD said.

The off-duty firefighter exited the highway at Tillary Street and was pulled over at Tillary and Gold streets, police said. He appeared to have been drinking but refused a breath test and was arrested, the NYPD said.

Profeta faces charges including driving while intoxicated, driving while ability impaired and refusal to take a breath test, the NYPD said.

His alleged drunken cruise through Brooklyn came about two years after he and two other firefighters were reportedly collared for beating up another man in a pub near Citi Field.

An argument between one firefighter and the other man at McFadden's Restaurant and Saloon in Flushing led to Profeta and his colleagues hammering the 31-year-old in April 2016, the New York Post reported at the time. Profeta was reportedly charged with assault and disorderly conduct.

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