A woman was charged with the attempted murder of New York City Police Department officers for allegedly hurling a Molotov cocktail at a marked police van that was occupied, officials said.
Samantha Shader, 27, of Catskill, New York, which is about 130 miles north of New York City, is accused of tossing the firebomb into the rear window of a van at Eastern Parkway and Washington Ave. in Brooklyn, officials told the New York Post and other news outlets.