NYPD officer on cell phone when prisoner escaped, sources say

NEW YORK -- An NYPD officer has been suspended after police sources said he was on his cell phone when a man in his custody escaped from a Manhattan hospital, CBS New York reports. Daniel Ortiz, 31, of Brooklyn, got away around 3:30 p.m. Thursday while in custody at Lenox Hill Healthplex at Seventh Avenue and West 12th Street, the NYPD said.Ortiz was picked up for allegedly stealing from Macy’s in Herald Square. He was brought to the hospital by Officer Albert Belcher, of Midtown South, to