Officer accused of threat on cop

BY ALISON GENDAR, DAILY NEWS POLICE BUREAU CHIEF - March 23, 2008

An NYPD internal affairs detective has been accused of trying to help a cousin charged with lewd behavior by threatening to "wreck" the career of the cop who wrote the summons, police sources said.

Detective Curtis Grimes even dragged his relative, Jermaine Robinson, with him when he leaned on Bronx Officer Nicholas Konner to get him to drop the charge, sources said. "I work in internal affairs and I'll wreck your career," Grimes allegedly screamed when Konner refused. "This could be fatal to your career." The NYPD suspended Grimes, 35, on Monday, sources said. An NYPD spokesman declined to comment.

What made the 12-year veteran's actions even worse, sources said, was that the detective was assigned to the NYPD's elite Group No. 1 - the IAB team that handles the most sensitive internal investigations, sources said. "It's pathetic enough that this detective can't do the real job, so he hides in IAB. Now, he uses his position for personal gain," said a police source.

Konner and his partner, Officer Daisy Estrada, ticketed Robinson for obscene behavior when they caught him March 9 having sex with a woman in a car on Bedford Park Blvd. in the Bronx's 52nd Precinct, sources said. Grimes came to the precinct stationhouse looking for Konner two times before he tracked the cop down in North Central Bronx Hospital sick with the flu, sources said.

Standing over his hospital bed, Grimes yelled at Konner for giving a summons to a member of a cop's family, sources said. "If you don't fix it, we're going to file a CCRB complaint and file a lawsuit," Grimes allegedly threatened, referring to the Civilian Complaint Review Board. The Internal Affairs Bureau is investigating. agendar@nydailynews.com