Mayor de Blasio vowed on Monday that an attempted-murder suspect who escaped from police custody āin Harź©µlem six days ago will be captured.
Career criminal Tareek Arnold, 23, ran away with his arms cuffed behind his back after shoving an officer as he was being walked to a patrol car outside the 32nd Precinct station house on West 135th Sš ŗtreet on June 23.
āI have been briefed on this several times and Iām absolutely convinced that heāll be found,ā deāBlasio said. āThey have a lot of information about this individual, and I donāt thinkļ·ŗ it will be much longer.ā
Cops chased Arnold as he made a break for it, but eventually lost sight oāf him.
Just before his escape, Arnold had been charged with shooting a foe on Seventh Avenue near tāhe corner of West 140th Street on June 8.
The viź¦ctim was shot four times, but survived the attack.
Arnold has a lengthy rap sheet that includes six arrests prior to the ļ·½June 2š¼3 bust.
Arnold was last seen wearing gray snešakers, a white T-shirt, gray sweat pants, andš a gray hooded sweat shirt. He has a tattoo that says āTrollā and another that says āMilitant Soldiers.ā