{"id":313700,"date":"2026-08-04T19:52:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T19:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/313700\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T19:52:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T19:52:11","slug":"new-york-police-bigwig-accused-of-driving-getaway-car-for-her-son-fired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/313700\/","title":{"rendered":"New York police bigwig accused of driving getaway car for her son fired"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A high-ranking Westchester County police official who allegedly acted as her <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/08\/04\/us-news\/ny-police-bigwig-was-getaway-driver-for-goon-son-in-gangland-shooting-sources\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">gangbanging son\u2019s getaway driver at the scene of a Bronx shooting <\/a>was fired Tuesday, officials announced.<\/p>\n<p>Jennifer Lackard was canned from her post as the deputy police commissioner with the Mount Vernon Police Department just hours after she was busted for allegedly chauffeuring her son from the scene of a shooting outside the Bronx Criminal Court on June 29.<\/p>\n<p>Her immediate termination was directly tied to her criminal charges and prosecutors\u2019 allegations that she drove her 20-year-old son to safety after he fired at a group of rivals in the Bronx.<\/p>\n<p>Jennifer Lackard graduation from the NYPD\u2019s Citizen Police Academy in a photo posted to Facebook in 2019 NYPD 43 Precinct\u00bf<\/p>\n<p>Jennifer Lackard was fired from her position as deputy police commissioner of the Mount Vernon Police Department. Mt. Vernon Police Department<\/p>\n<p>Mug shot of Chase Lackard obtained by the New York Post.  Obtained by NY Post<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEffective immediately, the City of Mount Vernon has terminated Jennifer Lackard\u2019s employment,\u201d<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DboCI00Tx-F\/?igsh=MW1iN2h0Z25uNGg0bg%3D%3D\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\"> the department said in a release.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe allegations are unrelated to her duties with the Mount Vernon Police Department and do not stem from any conduct associated with the Department or the performance of her official responsibilities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lackard and her son, Chase Lackard, were hit with attempted murder, attempted assault, criminal possession of a firearm, conspiracy and reckless endangerment charges.<\/p>\n<p>They were awaiting arraignment on the charges Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A high-ranking Westchester County police official who allegedly acted as her gangbanging son\u2019s getaway driver at the scene&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313701,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[4542,57,6336,9,24,55,54,56,241,3980,129,58,1628],"class_list":["post-313700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-guns","tag-metro","tag-mount-vernon","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny","tag-police-officers","tag-shootings","tag-the-bronx","tag-us-news","tag-westchester-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}