{"id":338141,"date":"2026-09-04T16:10:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T16:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/338141\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T16:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T16:10:08","slug":"nyc-traffic-enforcement-agent-punched-in-the-face-after-ticketing-car-on-bronx-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/338141\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC traffic enforcement agent punched in the face after ticketing car on Bronx street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A city traffic cop was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2017\/08\/10\/uber-driver-cuffed-in-midtown-for-punching-nypd-traffic-agent-in-face\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">slugged in the face<\/a> after ticketing a car on a Bronx street, and cops are asking for the public\u2019s help in hunting down the puncher and his accomplice.<\/p>\n<p>The NYPD traffic enforcement agent was issuing a parking summons to a Jeep on Davidson Ave. near W. 177 St. in Morris Heights around 12 p.m. on Aug. 28 when <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NYPDTips\/status\/2095878639791354365?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">the woman who owned the car and a man<\/a> approached him.<\/p>\n<p>The man punched the cop in the face before running off, heading north toward W. 177 St., police said. The woman jumped into her Jeep and sped off.<\/p>\n<p>Medics brought the traffic enforcement agent, who suffered minor injuries, to a local hospital for treatment.<\/p>\n<p>Police on Friday released surveillance photos of the suspects, who both remain on the loose.<\/p>\n<p>The slugger, described as a man with a dark complexion and a mustache, standing at 5 feet 8 and weighing about 150 pounds, was last seen wearing a black hooded sweatshirt with orange writing on the chest and left arm, gray sneakers, and carrying a black drawstring bag.<\/p>\n<p>The woman, also described as having a dark complexion and standing at 5 feet 8 inches, weighs roughly 180 pounds. She was last seen wearing a multicolored headscarf, a black shirt with green writing, gray pants, and white sneakers.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information regarding this incident is asked to call the <a href=\"https:\/\/crimestoppers.nypdonline.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NYPD\u2019s Crime Stoppers Hotline<\/a> at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A city traffic cop was slugged in the face after ticketing a car on a Bronx street, and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":338142,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[128,9,24,63,103,127017,122,124,123,127016],"class_list":["post-338141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-nypd","tag-parking-ticket","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-traffic-enforcement-agent"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338141","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=338141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/338142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}