Police are searching for a woman who reportedly slipped out of her handcuffs and escaped from a Lower Manhattan hospital on Sunday night.
Tiffany Neumann, 23, was taken to NewYork-Presbyterian/Lower Manhattan Hospital on Gold St. yesterday after she was arrested and charged with petty larceny, theft of service and criminal possession of stolen property on the Upper West Side on Saturday, according to news reports.
She managed to flee from the hospital shortly after 9 p.m., according to the N.Y.P.D., and was last seen wearing a hospital gown.
Neumann had given a fake name to police officers and told them she was pregnant, according to NBC. Officers took her to the hospital from a Manhattan booking facility on Sunday afternoon, but she was able to get her hands out of the cuffs, according to police.
The New York Daily News, quoting sources, also reported that she had been arrested Saturday after she dined and dashed and then shoplifted on the Upper West Side.
Police say Neumann is 5 feet 3 inches tall and weighs 120 pounds.
Police are asking anyone with information about this incident to call the Crime Stoppers Hotline at 800-577-TIPS. Info can also be submitted by logging onto WWW.NYPDCRIMESTOPPERS.COM or texting their tips to 274637(CRIMES) then enter TIP577.
— YANNIC RACK
