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Prisoner with 54 prior arrests escapes from NYC hospital; shows up to precinct 12 hours later
An accused thief with dozens of prior arre💯sts escaped from custody by strolling out of a Manhattan hospital early Monday — but was caught 12 hours later when he showed up at a police precinct, The Post has learned.
Darryl Stevens, 36, went to the Midtown North Precinct at around 12:30 p.m., ask✅ing to pick up some of his personal belongings that were still there following his petit larceny arrest Saturday, according to police sources.
Stevens — who𒁏 has 54 prior arrests — was promptly re-arrested, cops and the sources sa♊id.
The accused thief was initially taken to the hospital around 3:15 p.m. Saturday — but he 🌳simply🔯 walked out at around 12:40 a.m. on Monday, heading west on West 59th Street toward Ninth Avenue, according to police and sources.
It wasn’t immediately clear how he was able to duck out unnoticed.
The incident is “under internal review,” an NYPD spokesperson said.
The escape comes exactly two months after Yenchun Chen, 44 – who was in custody on drug charges – allegedly slipped out of a fifth-floor window at Mount Sinai Beth Israel and then took off🌟 in a cab.
Authorities and sources had initially described a Spider Man-like feat — saying Chen used tied-together bedsheets to rappel part of the way down the side of the building, then climbed down a la🅷dder to the street.
But souꦺrces later sa♕id he fell and seriously hurt himself while attempting to use the makeshift rope.
Chen was captured on Sept. 12 in Queens – still so badly bruis🧜ed from his daring escape that he begged US Marshals to be taken back to a doctor, authorities and sources said. He was re-arrested and slapped with escape char🌜ges.
It wasn’t immediately clear if Stevens would face additional charges, on top of the petit larceny rap he was initially busted on.
Records show he was last arrestꦯed Septꦍ. 21 on criminal mischief, petit larceny, criminal possession of stolen property and harassment charges.
He has been arrested onc🍰e in the past for an assault on a police officer, and six times on gun-related charges, police sources said.
On five sepa✤rate occasions, he was charged with resisting arrest,🐟 the sources said.
He also has a six-time history as an “emotionally disturbed person,” according to the sources.
