A troubled off-duty cop was stabbed in the stomach during a wild predawn fight at a seedy Bronx strip club, police said Saturday.
Modesto Alamo - already under investigation by the NYPD for an alleged assault - was in stable condition hours after the drunken, 5 a.m. brawl at Crazy Horse Cabaret in Eastchester, cops said.
Alamo, 35, went to the notorious saloon - the same club where former "Sopranos" actor Lillo Brancato was drinking with a friend before their deadly 2005 shootout with a cop - to pick up his girlfriend after a birthday party, police said.
Moments later, the girlfriend got into a fight inside the jiggle joint with another woman - whom Alamo then shoved, according to witnesses.
That woman's boyfriend jumped on the cop and the pair wrestled to the ground before Crazy Horse bouncers broke up the fracas and tossed out the combatants, witnesses said.
Screaming, "I need to go to my car to get my s---!", an enraged Alamo turned to run to his vehicle to get his gun when he was jumped again by the other man.
As the two struggled, the cop's assailant pulled out a knife and slashed at Alamo's leg and stomach before breaking free and running away, witnesses said.
Though bleeding, Alamo managed to drive himself to Jacobi Medical Center, police said.
Police sources said Alamo at first denied that he even set foot in the club, only to recant when workers showed detectives surveillance video taken from the Crazy Horse.
"We have evidence he was in the club," said a worker who did not give his name. "This guy is screwed.
"It's bad enough you gotta deal with a--holes, but a cop?" the worker added.
Alamo, who joined the NYPD in 2004, was under investigation by Internal Affairs after an alleged domestic incident, police sources said. He was currently on modified duty, assigned to the NYPD's fleet services unit maintaining the department's vehicles.
Investigators said it was not clear if Alamo would face criminal charges, but he certainly will face additional internal discipline.
His attacker remains at large, police said.
A NYPD spokesman was not certain if cops were forbidden to patronize the cabaret, which is where Brancato and pal Steven Armento were boozing in the hours before the shootout that claimed the life of off-duty cop Daniel Enchautegui.
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