By Thomas Tracy
New York Daily News
NEW YORK — An NYPD cop on horseback chased down a convicted killer on lifetime parole who had simply swiped a lady’s purse on the Upper West Side, eye-popping bodycam video launched by the NYPD exhibits.
Officer Kyle McLaughlin was patrolling close to W. 72nd St. and Columbus Ave. when he heard the sufferer scream, “Why’d she take my bag!”
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The mounted cop galloped after the fleeing criminal on his trusty steed Kelly, the officer’s body-worn digicam footage launched by the NYPD Thursday exhibits.
“Whether on foot or on hooves, our officers are always ready,” the NYPD stated on X.
Dressed in a white prime and black shorts, the suspect darted between vehicles and up and down totally different streets as she tried to flee the mounted cop sizzling on her heels, the video exhibits.
“Stop! Stop running!” McLaughlin screamed after her.
When the suspect was lastly stopped by a passerby, the cop handcuffed her, telling her she’s “being detained.”
The stolen purse was recovered and Felicia Field, already on lifetime parole for killing a livery cab driver throughout a botched theft when she was a teen, was arrested for grand larceny and false personation.
Field, 44, was launched from jail simply final 12 months after serving a 24-year sentence for the April 29, 2000, slaying. She is presently homeless, in keeping with the NYPD.
Since her launch from jail on April 24, 2025, she has been arrested for misdemeanor assault and menacing in Brooklyn on Feb. 17 and petty larceny and legal possession of stolen property in Manhattan, close to the place the arrest occurred, on March 23, officers stated.
In each instances, she was launched with out bail. It wasn’t instantly clear if steps had been taken to ship her again to jail for violating her parole after these arrests.
Field was 18 when she and accomplices Charles Rhodes, 17, and Tyriek Cross, 17, teamed as much as rob livery cab driver Cesar Manuel Lopez.
The three have been smoking marijuana collectively in East New York after they determined to rob somebody, Field confessed upon her arrest. When they couldn’t discover somebody to rob in close by Starrett City, they determined to carry up a cabbie.
The trio obtained into Lopez’s cab, with Field sitting within the entrance seat, cops stated. As the trio directed Lopez, 42, to drop them off on Elton St. close to Flatlands Ave., Field pulled a gun on the cabbie, demanding his cash.
Field instructed police the gun went off unintentionally in the course of the theft, killing Lopez.
The Staten Island father of three was the ninth livery driver slain within the first 4 months of 2000. His demise sparked a firestorm of rage from the town’s fellow livery drivers.
Scores of cab drivers confirmed up at Lopez’s funeral, bearing indicators studying “RIP #80” of their rear home windows, noting the slain cab driver’s automobile quantity.
Field was convicted of homicide, tried theft and weapon possession after a two-week trial. Rhodes and Cross pleaded responsible to lesser prices and have been every sentenced to 12 years in jail.
Her arraignment within the new case was pending Thursday in Manhattan Criminal Court.
This article, initially printed on April 16, has been up to date with extra details about the suspect.
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