THE NEW YORK POST By DENISE BUFFA
February 21, 2008 -- A veteran Bronx cop caught perjuring himself after a savvy teen secretly recorded him questioning him on his MP3 player won't be offered a sweetheart deal that keeps him out of prison, prosecutors said yesterday.
The "plea offer will be firm - a felony and jail time," Assistant DA Martin Galvin told Detective Christopher Perino at Bronx Supreme Court yesterday.
Perino, a nearly-20-year NYPD veteran, denied grilling attempted-murder suspect Erik Crespo, 17, about a Christmas 2005 shooting. But the teen secretly recorded the interrogation, which lasted an hour and 15 minutes, on the MP3 player he was listening to when cops nabbed him. Perino, 41, faces several perjury counts that could cost the married father of four his freedom and his pension. Crespo is currently serving seven years after prosecutors let him plead guilty to weapons possession.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment