Fed delay helped prisoner vanish after JFK escape

A “VIOLENT DEPORTEE” who had been repeatedly arrested on gun possession charges slipped through the feds’ fingers at Kennedy Airport — but agents waited for more than an hour before notifying cops that he had run off, officials said Wednesday.

The escapee, a Senegal native identified as Mohamadou Lamine Mbacke, 31, remained on the loose after getting away during a layover from Detroit at about 8 p.m. Tuesday.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were taking Mbacke to an airplane bound for Africa when Transportation Security Administration officials at Gate B23 in Terminal 4 directed them to uncuff their prisoner.

When the cuffs were removed, Mbacke (photo), who lived in the Bronx about a decade ago, bolted, sources said.

ICE and TSA officials didn’t tell the Port Authority Police Department of the escape until 9:15 p.m. — but by then Mbacke had already jumped into a taxi outside the airport and disappeared, according to video surveillance recovered by PAPD detectives.

The misstep outraged the Port Authority police union leaders.

“The delay in notifying the Port Authority Police Department about the prisoner’s escape is yet another example of the lack of coordinated communications between all law enforcement agencies at our nation’s airports,” said Paul Nunziato, president of the Port Authority Police Benevolent Association.

“(We) have been calling for coordinated, integrated communications between law enforcement agencies along with seamless video surveillance systems with law enforcement access.”

Mbacke was described as a “violent deportee” who had been in ICE custody since 2015, when an immigration judge ordered him back to Senegal.

He had been arrested twice for carrying a concealed firearm and weapons possession in Michigan in 2012 and 2013, and had done two years in prison after pleading guilty to the 2013 charges before ICE began deportation proceedings.

He entered the U.S. legally in 2005. On Oct. 2, 2010, while in New York City, he was arrested in Midtown for marijuana possession, cops said.

ICE would not immediately comment on why it took so long for their agents to inform the PAPD about Mbacke’s escape.

Mbacke is described as black, about 6-feet-2 and 190 pounds. He has a scar on his upper left neck and was last seen wearing a purple or black shirt, jeans and sneakers, officials said.

Anyone who sees Mbacke is asked to call authorities immediately.