o back in time and avoid everything that has happened,  he added.

The brazen robbery unfolded just after midnight on July 20, 2025 in Manhattan's Fort Washington Park. Obtained by NY Post

Mora Nunez had shot Sinclair in the face after trying to rob the off-duty border cop, who had been sitting with a female companion on a rock along the Hudson River in Fort Washington Park just after midnight, according to police. Prosecutors said he'd stolen another woman's cellphone minutes earlier.

After Mora Nunez shot Sinclair in the face, the officer quickly returned fire and struck his attacker twice before Mora Nunez fled on Aybar-Berroa's moped, prosecutors said.

Judge Preska said Monday that while she admired the young father's hope to better himself, she was not confident he had learned to respect the law, pointing to prosecutors' claims that he had bragged about his charges to other inmates while locked up at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn.

 Nothing instills any confidence that he has learned to respect the law, and the sentence should reflect that,  the judge said.

Officer Sinclair has been unable to return to work and is still recovering and undergoing facial surgeries 14 months after the attack, according to prosecutors.

Mora Nunez and Aybar-Berroa, who is charged in state court as well, have pleaded not guilty in that case, and are due back in court in November.