The robbery suspect who made a dramatic escape from the back of a cop car has been caught. According to the Times, Janine Power, 28, of Brooklyn, was recaptured Saturday afternoon at a gas station on Coney Island Avenue and Avenue P with alleged accomplice Anthony D'Angelo, 41, of Staten Island. She wasn't wearing her handcuffs anymore: “How can you escape wearing cuffs? Once they put you inside the car, how can you get out?” asked Abdul Rehman, the weekend attendant at the gas station where the suspects were caught. “She must be a genie or something.” more ›

The NYPD are searching for an escaped prisoner who jumped out of the back of a police car. Janine Power, 28, of Brooklyn, had been arrested on Thursday afternoon after allegedly robbing a cab driver of $30 and his cell phone. She had been processed, and was being transported to Brooklyn central booking when she jumped out of the moving vehicle. more ›

You want to know why New York is the greatest city in the world? It's because a tourist can get hit by a cop car and still want to come back. Johannes Glaumann, a tourist on his second visit to the city from Stockholm, was struck by an NYPD patrol car while crossing West Street at Clarkson Street yesterday morning. But from his bed at Bellevue Hospital, he told the Daily News, "I don't blame New York. I want to come back." Why not, when the city is full of gritty, real experiences like that? Hell, the NYPD should start charging for this kind of "only in New York" thrill! more ›

A high-ranking cop has been pushed from the force after using a police vehicle (hopefully not this one) to spy on his detective wife. Julio Ordonez joined up in 1986 and rose to the No. 2 position in the NYPD’s Manhattan Housing Bureau. But a couple years ago, the law enforcement officer—who was going through a divorce—was disciplined, first for not reporting a fight with his wife Tammie, and again for “improperly using” a police vehicle to tail her. His misdeeds didn’t go unpunished. more ›

In their latest effort to catch up with bad drivers—especially those with a cell phone in their lap or on their ear—Westchester cops have introduced a new look to the force’s automotive fleet. The “ghost car”, as it’s commonly called, is a cruiser, but its white on white design makes it harder to spot. “I thought you were a taxi,” or “I didn’t recognize it was a cop car,” say the targets, caught unaware. So far there are no statistics on how well the sneak-up approach works, but anecdotal evidence suggests that as drivers get better at hiding their mobile infractions, the ghost outsmarts them. “Can you see it?” an officer joked with a Times reporter, standing in front of the car in the precinct's parking lot. more ›

The NYPD has suspended the highway patrolman whose idling vehicle was stolen yesterday morning while he sat in a Bronx diner. Officer Nelson Robles stepped into the breakfast joint at 7 am, and just two minutes later his car went screeching from the lot, with Anibal Lugo—a batty local—behind the wheel. Both men now face the consequences of their brainless acts. more ›

An unapologetic prankster heisted a cop car that was left running and unattended outside a greasy spoon in Morris Park early this morning. The officer didn’t even have time to order his breakfast before realizing the highway patrol vehicle was gone, and with it his loaded rifle. "All of a sudden I see a cop come out of the restaurant running. He was going crazy," said Sammy Obaid, an employee at a deli across the street from the Lydig Coffee House. "He was on the phone, making calls. He was freaked out." more ›

A couple of young men in the Bronx had the head start on their weekend ruined in the wee hours of Friday morning when cops rolled up on them and hit them with summonses for drinking in public and disorderly conduct. That prompted the pair to strike back at police with a vengeance, trading in their hooch for some genuine hard stuff, purchasing motor oil from a nearby BP gas station in Bedford Park. The two then poured the oil on a cop car in front and tossed a lit match on it. The problem for 18-year-old Michael Bower and 22-year-old Carlos Ortiz is that the BP wasn't the only station nearby—the 52nd Precinct was right across the street. A lieutenant heading in spotted the melting bumper and the two were promptly put on the wrong side of the law for the second time of the night. Police sources said to the News, "Braniacs these boys are not," and, "They are pretty stupid...They did it right on camera." The squad car ended up with only minor damage and a police source said that with a new paint job, it should be back on the streets in no time. more ›