[NYPOST] The gangbanger who shot and wounded two NYPD sergeants after robbing several women at a Lower East Side business was out on probation in a crack cocaine case at the time, according to law-enforcement sources and court records.Joshua Dorsett, 22, is facing charges including attempted murder, criminal possession of a weapon and robbery after he allegedly firing off a shot during a struggle with the two officers on Eldridge Street, near Delancey Street, Thursday afternoon, according to cops and sources.
Sgt. Carl Johnson, 43, of the 5th precinct, was shot in the groin, and the same bullet passed through and grazed Sgt. Christopher Leap, 34, of the 7th precinct, in the left leg, police said.
Dorsett, a member of the notorious Up the Hill gang, struggled and fired off one shot that hit both cops, officials said.
The gang-linked Dorsett has a long history of run-ins with the law. He has at least three prior arrests, including for criminal possession of a controlled substance, according to police.
Police said he sold crack cocaine to an undercover cop six different times on the Lower East Side between March 8 and June 6 of 2022, according to a criminal complaint.
Dorsett pleaded guilty to criminal sale of a controlled substance in the fifth degree in the crack case and received three years of probation during his sentencing in May.
He was out on probation — and had even visited his probation officer Thursday morning — when police said he pulled a stickup in the mahjong parlor, according to cops and court records.
The Up the Hill crew is behind generations of tit-for-tat violence with its Down the Hill rivals for territory along opposite sides of Houston Street,
| …that’s in the Lower East Side… |