Fallen “Taxi King” Gene Freidman was busted Thursday for failure to pay over $200,000 in child support — but he didn’t go quietly.
Manhattan sheriff deput🌸ies had t🍎o chase him on foot to the rooftop of an Upper East Side building, where he was hiding, officials said.
The deputies spotted Freidman Thursday at about noon driving a black Chevy Tahoe൲ outside his East 65th Street townhou✅se.
As the deputies approached, the former medallion mogul bolted into his $6.2 million home, according t🎉o Sheriff Joseph Fucito.
The front door was locked but officials called for backup and were ab💎le to get inside, Fucito said.
After sea🐈rching the three-story building, the deputies made 💮their way to the roof, where they found Freidman hiding.
“They discovered him inside a shed, an elevator shed, on the roof of an adjacent building,” Fucito said.
Freidman had two warrants out for his arrest since September, one for failing to pay child support to his ex-wife Sandra Freidman, with whom he shares a daughteღr, and the other for contempt of court.
He wa꧅s hauled before Justice Diane Keisel, wꦉho set bail at $25,000.
Last July, Freidman was tossed beh𝓡ind bars for failing to pay $100,000 in child support to his baby mama, Inessa Boltyanskaya, with whom he shares a 14-year-old son.
The embattled businessman went from owning t⛎he largest number of medallions in New York to filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
He is reportedly cooperat🌠ing with federal prosecutors against his former business partner and good friend Michael Cohen.
Freidman didn’t return a request for comment.