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Escaped Prisoner Caught After Fleeing Custody in Hospital, Police Say

By Aidan Gardiner | September 1, 2015 10:46am | Updated on September 1, 2015 5:37pm
 Tiffany Neumann, 23, fled police custody for two days, NYPD officials said.
Tiffany Neumann, 23, fled police custody for two days, NYPD officials said.
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MANHATTAN — An escaped prisoner was re-arrested Tuesday morning, two days after fleeing a hospital where she had been in police custody for stealing a meal in the Upper West Side, NYPD officials said.

Tiffany Neumann, 23, was the fourth prisoner to escape police custody since June. She was caught on West 109th Street about 8:45 a.m., police said. It was not immediately clear how investigators found her.

Three days earlier Neumann left an Upper West Side eatery without paying for a meal, police said.

She was then arrested over the weekend after shoving a T-shirt under her shirt and trying to walk out of a clothing store, police said.

When Neumann was taken to court to be arraigned on petit larceny charges, she told officers that she was pregnant and bleeding, an NYPD spokesman said.

She was taken to Lower Manhattan Hospital at 83 Gold St., the spokesman said.

She managed to slip out of her cuffs on Sunday about 9:10 p.m. and elude police until Tuesday morning, officials said.

Three men escaped from three different precincts in separate incidents this summer. They have all been recaptured.

Neumann was charged with grand larceny and criminal possession of stolen property and escape.