An off-duty NYPD cop is kidnapped by two crooks with automatic weapons and later arrested in Harlem

Two crooks armed with automatic weapons were hunted down and arrested after stealing an off-duty police officer’s car in Harlem, police sources said Saturday.

The NYPD cop was getting into his white BMW at the corner of W. 146 St. and Bradhurst Ave. around 11:30 p.m. Friday when two men, ages 20 and 21, approached him with automatic weapons drawn, police sources said. The crooks demanded the cop’s keys and he gave them to him.

The two men then jumped into the police car and sped away north on Bradhurst Avenue, police sources said.

Officers followed the incident and tracked an iPad in the police car to the corner of Broadway and W. 138th Street, where they found the abandoned car with the robbers already on their way, sources said.

However, air force units helped police search for the couple, who were arrested nearby, it said.

Jose Rivera, 20, and Jomar Crespo, 21, both possessed modified weapons with attached automatic firearms, police said.

Crespo was charged with robbery, grand theft auto, illegal possession of a machine gun, illegal possession of a loaded firearm, illegal possession of stolen property and illegal possession of an ammunition feeding device.

Rivera faced the same charges, plus additional charges of manufacturing a rapid-fire weapon and manufacturing a dangerous instrument.

Their arraignment in Manhattan Criminal Court was scheduled for Saturday evening.

With Rocco Parascandola