By: Jared Evan
A man who threatened to “kill every cop”, was previously hospitalized after a road rage violent outburst; was taken into custody and taken to the Nassau County Medical Center for a psychiatric evaluation but later released before being arrested again and this time assaulting an officer.
Upon his release after threatening to kill cops, he was charged with aggravated harassment for the threatening tweets, received a desk-appearance ticket and then freed without a court appearance, local media reported.
On Friday, was arrested again for attempting to steal a car in Westchester County.
While being held at the local police station, the suspect allegedly grabbed a Greenburgh cop by the throat and had to be hit with a Taser, leading to additional assault charges, sources said.
He was being held without bail at the Westchester County Jail on Sunday, records show.
The New York reported the troubled Long Island man threatened online to “kill every NYPD officer” before embarking on a bizarre crime spree that only ended when he allegedly attacked a cop in Westchester County, law-enforcement sources told The Post.
The three-day drama began when Michael Apawu, 20, walked into a Nassau police station Wednesday and asked to get a hold of NYPD
Commissioner Keechant Sewell said he then lapsed into a rant about the CIA and the FBI, police sources said. The New York Post was able to see what the suspect posted online, before the supposed threats were taken down. “I will kill every NYPD officer,” Apawu allegedly posted on Twitter, tagging Sewell’s official Twitter account. “Retweet’s PCs twitter [sic] where you at, you don’t believe me.”
“Michael has been stressed out lately,” his dad, a New York City transit worker who lives in Woodmere, told police, according to The New York Post sources. “Acting strangely.”
Reporters for The New York Post write, Hours later, Apawu’s car was spotted near City Hall and NYPD headquarters in Lower Manhattan, putting police on further alert, sources said. Police then staked out at his Woodmere home and picked Apawu up after he was dropped off by an acquaintance, sources said.
The New York Post was able to find previous charges against the suspect. Apawu was previously listed as an emotionally disturbed person and briefly hospitalized after a road-rage incident on Long Island on Oct. 2, the sources said. In that case he was accused of punching another driver’s window and yelling, “I could kill you!” the police sources said. It’s unclear whether there were any charges in the case.
In the recent case, He was released to NYPD cops in Manhattan, where he was charged with aggravated harassment for the threatening tweets. received a desk-appearance ticket and then freed without a court appearance.
An aggravated harassment charge is not eligible for bail under the state’s criminal-justice reforms. But even before the reforms took hold, it is likely that Apawu would have received a DAT and been released anyway, sources said.
