A Man jumps into Central Park’s Harlem Meer to dodge NYPD after allegedly stealing from a dry cleaner…
23-year-old man, Jason Taylor, stole a tap-to-pay machine from a Lenox Avenue dry cleaner around 3:35 p.m. Monday. When NYPD officers from the 28th Precinct chased him into the park, he jumped into the Harlem Meer in a last-ditch effort to evade arrest.
After roughly 20 minutes in the murky water and a struggle with responders…NYPD divers pulled him out. He was arrested on the spot and charged with petit larceny. He was taken to the hospital in stable condition.