White Plains Man Accused Of Cab Carjacking: Update

UPDATE — Yonkers police charged an 18-year-old White Plains man with first-degree robbery after a taxicab was carjacked Oct. 17 in the city. Police tracked the stolen cab to Peekskill and then to Cortlandt before arresting Nickohlas Davis in Montrose.

Yonkers police said the carjacking took place at 3:13 a.m. The victim, a 39-year-old resident of Yonkers, told police that she was working as a taxi driver and just had her vehicle stolen from William Street by two armed individuals. She was not injured.

Detectives learned she was waiting to pick up a fare on William Street when she was confronted by two people who entered her vehicle, a 2006 Ford 500. One displayed a handgun and the other displayed a knife, police alleged. They seized the victim’s cell phone and car keys before ordering her out of the cab and driving off.

Detectives and investigators with the Yonkers Police Department and Westchester County Department of Public Safety Real Time Crime Center, using technology including license plate readers, were able to track the vehicle to the area of Route 9 in Cortlandt. Members of the New York State Police then canvassed the area and located the vehicle on Albany Post Road in the hamlet of Montrose later in the evening of the same day.

Investigators with the Yonkers Police, New York State Police, and FBI's Westchester County Safe Streets Task Force conducted surveillance and subsequently took two people into custody.

Police said Davis was identified as the alleged handgun brandisher.

Davis was charged with one count of first degree robbery, a Class B Violent Felony. He was arraigned Oct. 18 and sent to the Westchester County Jail with bail set at $50,000. His next court date is scheduled for Oct. 29. The case is being prosecuted by the Westchester County District Attorney’s Office.

Investigators are working on the case including information to effect the arrest of the second person and recover additional evidence including any weapons.

Anyone with information regarding this incident is encouraged to contact the Yonkers Police Detective Division at (914) 377-7724 – all calls will remain confidential. Anonymous tips can be sent by texting the key word YPD plus the tip to 847411. Anonymous tips can also be sent directly through the Yonkers PD Tips app which can be downloaded for free to any Apple or Android device.

NOTE: Booking charges are merely accusations and the defendant(s) are presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty in a court of law

CORTLANDT, NY — A surveillance operation by the FBI and New York State police in Montrose ended in the arrest of two men accused of stealing a car at gunpoint and knifepoint in Yonkers.

State police said they responded to a report of a stolen vehicle on Route 9 in Peekskill on Thursday. The car was reported to have been southbound on Route 9 at 4:20 p.m. Police canvassed the area and found the car unoccupied in a residential complex in Montrose.

Then troopers in conjunction with the FBI and detectives from the Yonkers Police Department began a surveillance operation. Ultimately, two people were observed getting into the stolen vehicle at which point they were taken into custody without further incident, police said.

The vehicle had stolen earlier in the day at gunpoint and knifepoint in the City of Yonkers, police alleged.