New York Post

‘Immig slip’ con nabbed

Got from JFK to Chicago

- By JOE MARINO Additional reporting by Aaron Feis, Shawn Cohen & Larry Celona

Make that a coffee to go. The ex-con who humiliated federal agents by escaping custody at JFK Airport in a taxi Tuesday night was nabbed Friday — sipping a cup of joe in a Chicago Starbucks, law-enforcemen­t sources and his barista told The Post.

On-the-lam immigrant Mohamadou Lamine Mbacke’s brief run at freedom came to an end with a whimper at the java joint near the Chicago Amtrak station, said a spokesman for Immigratio­n and Customs Enforcemen­t. It was unknown how he got to Chicago.

“When he came into the store, he just kind of looked distracted,” said barista Zimbo Gessert, who served Mbacke (inset). “He said, ‘Can I have a grande black?’ He sat by the window — he was scanning the outside — and I thought it was just the usual customer looking out the window,” Gessert said.

Then as quietly as Mbacke came in, about a half-dozen ICE agents entered and cuffed him and led him out, Gessert said.

“It was oddly silent. It looked like they were talking in low murmurs,” the worker said. “They put handcuffs on him. None of it was noticeable — just low talk and quiet.”

Authoritie­s couldn’t immediatel­y say what’s next for Mbacke, 31, a convicted felon who was moments away from being deported to his native Senegal when he gave ICE agents the slip at JFK.

Mbacke and three agents escorting him had just gotten off their flight from Detroit and were waiting for their connecting flight to Senegal when the agents uncuffed Mbacke at a security checkpoint, sources said.

As soon as the shackles were off, Mbacke bolted, blending in among the sea of travelers. He fled the terminal, hopped into a yellow cab and disappeare­d.

Mbacke, who legally entered the country in 2005, had racked up a slew of arrests and conviction­s during his time in the US — including 10 arrests in New York City, an NYPD source said.

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