PLEASANTVILLE - A taxi driver helped police nab a fellow cabbie Wednesday night.
Edward Peters, who has been driving taxis for 10 years, knew police were looking for Neil Collazo on a criminal sexual contact charge. Then, as he got to Main Street and the Black Horse Pike, he saw Collazo in his cab. 

Peters, 43, called police and began tailing Collazo.

"He tried to lose me and turned around on the Black Horse Pike," Peters said.

But as Collazo made turns down various side streets, Peters kept up. He had police on the phone, relaying their route.

 
 As the two turned down Tremont Avenue to McKinley Avenue, police were there to catch Collazo.
"I jumped out of the car," Peters said. "The police told me to go back."

Sgt. Danny Adcock went to the bus station Wednesday night, letting the cab drivers gathered there know they were looking for Collazo.

A woman accused the Mainland Cab driver of criminal sexual contact.

The cabbie had picked up a dancer getting off work at Delilah's Den at about 3 that morning and drove her home to the Landings. But when Collazo helped the woman out of the cab, she told police, he grabbed her in a bear hug and tried to stick his tongue down her throat. He held her so tightly she could feel that he was aroused, Adcock said.

The woman called police.

Collazo was arrested on the same charge in May 2006. An 18-year-old woman said he touched her in a sexually inappropriate way when he drove her home to Ocean City, police said at the time. A couple of days later, she called police to report that Collazo was standing on her front porch. He was arrested and charged with criminal sexual contact and burglary.

But when Adcock went looking for Collazo on Wednesday night, he didn't expect anyone to go to the lengths Peters did.

"Being that (the suspect) was a cab driver, I asked a couple of them, 'If you see this guy, give me a call,'" he said.

But Peters took it more seriously.

"I told them I would find him," he said of Collazo. "And tonight, he's sitting in a cell."

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