HONEY, I LOST THE KID
Spaced-out dad forgets his baby on the subway
A dope who cops say was drunk, high or both volunteered to take his 6-month-old kid home on the subway yesterday — but when he woke up on the train in Brooklyn, she was gone. Kidnapped? Nope. He had left her on an Upper East Side subway platform, where she was rescued hours later.
Dude, where’s my carriage? A dope whose Facebook handle is “Tarzan Cannibus” told his girlfriend that he would take their 6month-old daughter home on the subway at around 2:30 a.m. Sunday — then left the baby on an Upper East Side train platform while he snoozed on a train to Brooklyn, police said.
Luckily, a good Samaritan found the kid in her stroller — two hours later — on a southbound platform at the 86th Street stop on the Lexington Avenue line and alerted cops, according to authorities.
Half-baked dad Josh Perez, 26 — who cops believe was drunk, high or both at the time — says he was on his way home from a friend’s house with girlfriend Vanessa Almodovar, 27, and their baby when the parents got into a spat at the 110th Street No. 6 train station, police said.
Almodovar went back to their pal’s place and left Perez to take the baby home, according to cops.
Perez, who lives in The Bronx, claimed he boarded an uptown 6 train with the baby, then switched to a 5 train at 125th Street to head further north, authorities said.
But Perez told investigators that, the next thing he knew, he was waking up at the President Street station — roughly 12 miles away in Crown Heights, which would mean he’d gotten on a southbound train — and the baby was gone.
Perez told cops he frantically called his girlfriend and asked if she had the baby, but she reminded him that he was supposed to have her, sources said. The dad then called police, who picked him up in Brooklyn and confirmed that the baby was found on the platform.
It was not clear how the infant ended up in the 86th Street station.
The child was taken to NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Hospital for a checkup. Almodovar went to the hospital to be with her baby, authorities said.
Meanwhile, Perez was questioned in the Transit District 4 substation at Union Square before being arrested and charged with abandonment of a child, acting in a manner injurious to a child and reckless endangerment.
Authorities are still reviewing video footage to further check out his story, sources said.
While being led out of the substa- tion to head to night court for his arraignment, the dad kept his mouth shut and his gaze fixed forward.
Perez has 16 prior arrests: two felonies and 14 misdemeanors, a law-enforcement source said. All but two of the busts are sealed, according to the source.
The felonies were for assault and resisting arrest, while the misdemeanors included criminal mischief and theft of services for turnstile-jumping, the source said.
Perez was last collared in 2016 for a misdemeanor, but that record is sealed, according to the source.
Almodovar praised her baby daddy in a Facebook post on Father’s Day last year. She was unable to be reached on Sunday.
“You make me happy! You make our kids happy. You’re a great father, step father, and a great man,” Vanessa wrote at the time.
It was not immediately clear whether they have any other children together.
A representative for the city’s Administration for Children’s Services said the agency is “investigating the case with NYPD” but would not say whether it has probed the family before.