A U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer has been shot in a Manhattan park in what authorities say was an apparent botched robbery

A person of intertest was taken into custody Sunday in connection to the shooting of an off-duty U.S. Border Patrol officer inside a park in New York City, law enforcement sources said.

An off-duty U.S. Customs and Border Patrol officer was shot in the face and wounded during a botched robbery in an upper Manhattan park late Saturday, cops said.