One of the masked thugs suspected of savagely beating and robbing an off-duty NYPD cop at knifepoint in the Bronx over the weekend was busted Tuesday morning, law enforcement sources said.
Taveon Hargrove, 23, was picked up by the US Marshals’ Regional Fugitive Task Force in North Chesterfield, Virginia, in connection to the brutal caught-on-video early Saturday attack on the 27-year-old officer on St. Peters Avenue in Westchester Square, according to the sources.
Charges are pending against Hargrove, who cops over the weekend warned was “to be considered armed and dangerous.”
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Surveillance video of the attack captured the two goons approaching the cop on the sidewalk and immediately throwing him to the ground next to a huge pile of trash.
One of the alleged attackers could then be seen holding a blade to the officer’s neck as the other rifled through the victim’s pockets.
Police said the crooks made off with the off-duty officer’s Glock 19 9mm handgun.
Hargrove’s bust came soon after NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch told FOX 5’s Good Day New York that police were “hot on his trail” over the weekend.
“We really put the full resources of the New York City Police Department into finding this guy, and I hope and expect we will have him soon,” the top cop said Tuesday morning.
Hargrove’s violent accomplice has not yet been caught, but his father, Jeffrey Hargrove, 55, was busted Sunday for allegedly using the cop’s stolen credit card at several Bronx bodegas, cops and sources said.
Meanwhile, the injured officer is making a gradual recovery, Tisch said.
“I went to visit him a few times this weekend. So did the mayor,” the commissioner said.
“He’s going to have some surgery this afternoon, and we are very hopeful for a full recovery, but he had lots of broken bones on his face. He was in rough shape.”
“To anyone thinking of assaulting a police officer, you do it, and we’re coming for you,” she warned.
