School Safety Agent Level 3 Michael Algarin arrested a 20-year-old man who had just stabbed a 65-year-old woman in the face and robbed her.

Algarin, assigned to Fannie Lou Hamer High School in the Bronx, was on West Farms Road and Jennings St. at about 3 p.m. June 10 monitoring students on their way home from school when a man approached and informed him of a robbery.

The informant told Algarin that he was chasing a man who had just robbed and injured an elderly woman some blocks away. In his pursuit of the perpetrator, the man said, the robber had threatened to shoot him.

Algarin got a description of the suspect and the direction in which he was running. Despite the possibility of the robber having a gun, the unarmed Algarin went looking for him. He found him trying to hide behind a parked van.

Ignoring the possible danger to himself, Algarin collared the husky youth and handcuffed him. In a search of the suspect, Algarin said he found two wallets and some blood-stained single dollar bills.

He then told SSA Suzy Jackson to call 911 and had SSA Willie Russ safeguard as a witness to the crime the man who had informed Algarin of the robbery.

When police officers arrived, they confirmed that a woman had been stabbed in the face and robbed of six single dollar bills. Neither the school safety agents, who conducted a search of the area, nor the responding police, found any weapons.

The perpetrator was removed to the precinct, and Algarin spent two more hours at the school.

When he got into his car to go home, however, he heard something fall from the wheel well. Algarin got out of the vehicle and found a silver-plated, blood-stained hunting knife with a four-inch blade underneath the car.

The agent got an old shirt from his car, wrapped the knife in it to preserve fingerprints, and gave it to the police.

The robber was held on $100,000 bail and is awaiting trial on several charges arising from the robbery and assault.