One of many thugs suspected of savagely beating and robbing an off-duty NYPD cop in The Bronx was busted in Virginia on Tuesday — after fleeing there together with his mommy, law-enforcement sources stated.
Taveon Hargrove — who at 23 already has a rap sheet with greater than a dozen arrests — was nabbed by the US Marshals’ Regional Fugitive Activity Pressure in North Chesterfield for the brutal caught-on-video early Saturday assault on the 27-year-old officer on St. Peters Avenue in Westchester Sq., in keeping with the sources.
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Expenses are pending towards Hargrove, who cops over the weekend warned was “to be thought of armed and harmful.”
After police launched a wished poster for his arrest, the suspect and his mom fled the Massive Apple and have been hiding out within the Virginia house, which belongs to a pal, in keeping with the sources.
He tried to run when cops discovered him there Tuesday — hiding contained in the storage on the home, the place he had been sleeping on a mattress on the ground, sources stated.
Pictures of him after he was apprehended present him with a badly bloodied face.
Sources stated the legal already has 13 prior arrests, together with 4 as a juvenile. One entails a Bronx weapons-possession cost Dec. 4.
In that case, he was allegedly discovered with a knife after leaping a subway turnstile however later skipped out on a Dec. 23 court docket look and was sought on a warrant.
Surveillance video of Saturday’s Bronx assault on the cop captured two masked males approaching the officer on the sidewalk and instantly throwing him to the bottom subsequent to an enormous pile of trash.
One of many attackers might be seen holding a blade to the officer’s neck as the opposite rifled by means of his pockets.
Police stated the crooks made off with the officer’s Glock 19 .9mm handgun.
Hargrove’s bust got here quickly after NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch instructed FOX 5’s Good Day New York that police have been “sizzling on his path” over the weekend.
“We actually put the complete sources of the New York Metropolis Police Division into discovering this man, and I hope and anticipate we can have him quickly,” the highest cop stated Tuesday morning.
Hargrove’s violent confederate has not but been caught, however his father, Jeffrey Hargrove, 55, was busted Sunday for allegedly utilizing the cop’s stolen bank card at a number of Bronx bodegas, cops and sources stated.
In the meantime, the injured officer is making a gradual restoration, Tisch stated.
“I went to go to him just a few instances this weekend. So did the mayor,” the commissioner stated.
“He’s going to have some surgical procedure this afternoon, and we’re very looking forward to a full restoration, however he had plenty of damaged bones on his face. He was in tough form.”
“To anybody pondering of assaulting a police officer, you do it, and we’re coming for you,” she warned.
