Wednesday, August 5, 2026 · Streets
YES, IN AMERICA — POLICE COMMISSIONER WAS THE GETAWAY DRIVER...
Yes, in America: a police commissioner drove the car for her son's drive-by shooting. Mount Vernon Deputy Police Commissioner Jennifer Lackard, 49, and her ex-con husband chaperoned their 20-year-old son Chase to a botched hit outside Bronx Criminal Court on June 29 — then mom took the wheel as getaway driver, sources and an indictment say.
Parents in the front of the family Chrysler Pacifica. Son in back with a semiautomatic, firing at rival-gang members and missing. Seat swaps. Clothes change. Text coaching from mom on how to time it. She was arrested Tuesday morning, held on $75,000 bail, and fired from her $138,000 wellness-unit post hours later. Attempted murder. Conspiracy. Reckless endangerment. The badge was never a character reference. NY Post →
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