New York Daily News

Cop bitten in Qns. drug raid

- BY KERRY BURKE, ROCCO PARASCANDO­LA and THOMAS TRACY With Graham Rayman

A PIT BULL took a bite out of a crimefight­er early Wednesday when narcotics cops raided the pooch’s Queens home, officials said.

Members of the NYPD’s Queens South narcotics squad executed a search warrant inside an apartment on Beach 27th St. near Seagirt Ave. in Far Rockaway about 5:30 a.m., cops said.

Moments after they used a battering ram to get into the home, the dog charged at the officers, authoritie­s said.

The animal latched its jaws onto a cop’s legs.

A detective fired at the dog but missed.

The bullet went through the floor and into the downstairs apartment and lodged in the floor there, police and sources said.

The detective was taken to Jamaica Hospital with a large bite wound. He is expected to recover, officials said.

The dog was corralled and locked in the bathroom with a second pit bull that lives in the home. Neither dog was harmed.

Cops took the dog that attacked the detectives, but left the other one in the apartment.

“I’m still trying to recover. They woke us up with the noise,” said a woman in the apartment where the stray bullet landed. “We’re just glad everything’s safe.”

Other neighbors said the owner of the dogs allows the pooches to run free in a vacant lot across the street.

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