Escaped prisoner Tiffany Neumann back in custody and speaking out

LOWER MANHATTAN (WABC) -- A prisoner who escaped from a hospital in Lower Manhattan on Sunday night is back in custody and she had a lot to say to the press as she was led away in handcuffs, again.

"Hi, my name if Tiffany Neumann and I've been brutally beaten by the cops and I really need someone to help me. (How did you escape police?) I broke out of the handcuffs after I was out of the hospital after they almost killed me, and they just tried again. (Did you steal a woman's credit card too?) I didn't steal it, she left it in the bar for me and I used it. (What did you buy?) I bought cigarettes and booze, and I'm pregnant. (Are you pregnant?) Yeah. (Were you drinking that night?) Yeah, I had like a beer. (How come you were drinking then if you are pregnant?) Because I'm so beat up, he's pushing my stomach as we speak, so I need help, can anybody please help me? I need a lawyer, thank you," Neumann said.

She was arraigned overnight Tuesday and is being held without bail..

The 23-year-old was at the Hi Life Bar on the Upper West Side Sunday, when managers there said she did not pay her bill. They called the police. Police arrested her, but after she told them she was pregnant and not feeling well, they took her to New York Presbyterian Lower Manhattan Medical Center, where doctors said she was not pregnant.

Although she was handcuffed at the hospital, she escaped when a police officer stepped away to use a rest room. On Tuesday morning, Neumann was arrested at a relative's house on West 109th Street on the Upper West Side. She was taken to the precinct in Lower Manhattan.

According to police, the suspect spent her day as a fugitive at bars, and running up a tab on a stolen cell phone and credit card.

After escaping Sunday, she immediately went to several bars close to the Lower Manhattan hospital. She spent time with a group at one of the bars to blend in, then police said she stole the phone and credit card from a woman in the group. Detectives tracked purchases on the card to a newsstand and to a Forever 21 store.

Neumann is the fourth person in NYPD custody this summer to escape from police.

"There is no excuse for it, it's embarrassing, she is not a mastermind criminal, it's just clearly due to inattentiveness and carelessness. So, the police officer was suspended last night," said Chief James O'Neill, NYPD.

Tareek Arnold, 23, was seen on video running away in handcuffs as out of breath police officers tried to catch him. Arnold was wanted for attempted murder and wasn't caught for a month.

Arthur Collins, 57, escaped from a holding cell at the 25th Precinct. He was caught in possession of a gun silencer.

In August, 25-year-old Austin Stephenson escaped as he was being escorted into the 23rd Precinct on charges of criminal trespass.

"I'll make that very clear by the way that punishments that we will be putting in place for these type of events is going to be significant. Once we have a person in our custody our responsibility is the care and custody of that individual, and I will not tolerate as police commissioner these continued lapses in what should be basic policing," Police Commissioner William Bratton said.

Neumann has six prior arrests. Her family says she has a history of mental illness.

Neumann is facing the previous charges of petit larceny, criminal possession of stolen property and theft of service. She also was charged with escape in the third degree.