{"id":315477,"date":"2026-08-06T20:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T20:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/315477\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T20:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T20:28:08","slug":"husband-of-former-mount-vernon-deputy-commissioner-in-custody-after-alleged-role-in-bronx-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/315477\/","title":{"rendered":"Husband of former Mount Vernon deputy commissioner in custody after alleged role in Bronx shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>James Lackard, the husband of a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/newyork\/news\/jennifer-lackard-mount-vernon-police-official-arrested-in-bronx-shooting\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">former Mount Vernon police official who has been accused of attempted murder<\/a>, was arraigned Thursday morning.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Bail was set at $150,000.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>James Lackard, his wife Jennifer Lackard, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/newyork\/news\/son-of-former-mount-vernon-police-official-facing-attempted-murder-charges\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">their son Chase Lackard<\/a> all face attempted murder, assault, weapons possession, conspiracy and reckless endangerment charges for a shooting that took place outside a Bronx courthouse in June.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Chase Lackard, 20, is accused of firing the shots, which fortunately did not hit anyone. James and Jennifer Lackard are accused of helping him plan a hit, and driving him to the Grand Concourse to carry it out.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Jennifer Lackard previously served as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/newyork\/news\/mount-vernon-police-department-changes-community-relations\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">the deputy commissioner for wellness in the community affairs division of the Mount Vernon Police Department<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Her arrest on attempted murder charges made headlines and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/newyork\/news\/former-mount-vernon-police-official-arrested-vetting\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">raised questions about the vetting process<\/a> prior to her hiring in 2020. She posted $75,000 bail Thursday morning. Her son Chase is being held without bail.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Investigators say texts show the mother and son coordinating the shooting.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Chase and Jennifer Lackard are due back in court in late September.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"James Lackard, the husband of a\u00a0former Mount Vernon police official who has been accused of attempted murder, was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":315478,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,6336,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-315477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-mount-vernon","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315477","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=315477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}