A Brooklyn man who fled police custody earlier this year – one of 21 such escapees who have bedeviled the NYPD since January – was captured yesterday in Bedford-Stuyvesant, police said.
That leaves just one escapee on the loose.
Larry Nelson, 32, was apprehended without incident at 7:30 a.m. by cops from the 77th Precinct and members of a federal fugitive task force.
Nelson fled police custody March 7 after he was arrested for driving with a doctored driver’s license. He escaped on his way to court.
The arrest follows the capture of three other recent escapees, including Friday’s capture of Jaime Ramirez, 19, at his cousin’s house in Riverside, Calif.
On Thursday, Tyrone Singelton, 20, turned himself in to police, a day after he was arrested for assaulting his girlfriend.
Ronnie Lynn Taylor, 36, picked up on a prostitution charge on Thursday, fled police custody when she was taken to Woodhull Hospital, but she was picked up later that day.
Police Commissioner Ray Kelly has announced several steps that he hopes will stem the recent rash of escapes, including his plan to launch a pilot program in lower Manhattan within 30 days in which plastic wristbands bearing photographs and other identifying information will be issued to prisoners in a bid to help cops better track them.
Nelson’s capture means that Louis Acosta, a suspect in 16 sexual attacks who fled from a police interrogation room in The Bronx on May 6, is the only escapee on the lam.