New York is a tough town. Many people move there--some for the bright lights, some looking to score big in the financial sector, and some to score in other, less legitimate areas. What all of them will agree with about the Big Apple is this: It's tough to get ahead. In fact, life in New York can be a real headache.

Unless, of course, you are Nicolas McGee, who was extradited from Virginia on Thursday and arrested in New York for killing a drug dealer named Kawshen Gelzer. But that wasn't all he did; he also removed Gelzer's head and stored it in a freezer--for two years. And that's the bald truth.

The Brooklyn man accused of killing a sex offender in a fight over drugs — and keeping his severed head in a freezer for two years — stuck his tongue out at onlookers as he was charged with murder Friday in the grisly crime.

Nicolas McGee, 45, was extradited to New York this week from Chesapeake, Virginia, where he was being held in an identity fraud case.

The face-tattooed suspect wore a rumpled shirt and mugged for the cameras as he was escorted out of the NYPD’s 67th Precinct after being charged with murder, robbery, concealment of a human corpse, and tampering with physical evidence in connection with the death of 40-year-old Kawsheen Gelzer.

Here's the hairy part of the story:

The investigation was launched in January, when local drug dealer Gelzer’s severed head and body parts were found stashed in a freezer inside a Nostrand Avenue apartment, police said.

McGee’s wife, 45-year-old Heather Stines, was living in the apartment at the time of the gory find.

It's not clear what caused the altercation, although Stines told authorities that the whole thing began in a dispute over drugs.

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McGee clearly gave this a lot of brain run-time, because he arranged the storage of the detached cranium with forethought.

Warning: coarse language

“I got to cut this motherf–ker up,” McGee allegedly told police.

“I put it in there and tried to forget about it,” he said of the remains. 

In the weeks before cops discovered the severed body parts, Stines had apparently gotten anxious about letting people in the apartment, tenants said.

The fridge had even been taped up, they claimed.

After police finally raided the place, Stines underwent a psychiatric evaluation and was charged with concealment of a corpse.

At least we know McGee could produce a nice turn of freeze. And if anyone needs to see a head-shrinker, it's this guy. McGee is being charged with concealment of a corpse, which is against the law whether the corpse involved is a friend or floe.

It's unclear who gave New York police the heads-up as to McGee's whereabouts. There was no reward offered; McGee did not have a price on his head.

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