Post by WaTcHeR on Feb 7, 2006 12:14:17 GMT -5
02/06/2006 - GREENBURGH — Authorities have a security videotape that shows a Greenburgh police officer meeting a dominatrix the day after she was arrested by his colleagues on marijuana charges, her lawyer said yesterday.
The 31-year-old woman, known as angelabella on a Web site offering her services for sadomasochistic fetishes, said that the police taunted her when they learned her occupation and that she agreed to a tryst with the officer after it was suggested the criminal charges would disappear if she did.
Her lawyer, Tony Castro, said he was told a security video shows the two meeting but not engaging in any sexual behavior, which she contends occurred elsewhere.
Last week, Police Chief John Kapica suspended the officer without pay and reassigned his fellow officers in the street crime unit to other patrol posts. Police Internal Affairs and the Public Integrity Bureau of the Westchester County District Attorney's Office are investigating the matter. Kapica said police have seen evidence purporting to confirm that the woman and the officer met after her arrest. Police were also reviewing tapes from their headquarters.
The woman was arrested Jan. 21 in the parking lot of the Greenburgh Multiplex cinemas. She was charged with driving while ability impaired by drugs, a misdemeanor, and marijuana possession, a violation. She said she was sexually ridiculed after police found sex toys in her car and learned what she did for a living.
"From the very beginning, she was under the impression that if she did certain things, the charges would go away," Castro said, adding that the officer called her the next day to set up a sexual rendezvous.
The 31-year-old woman, known as angelabella on a Web site offering her services for sadomasochistic fetishes, said that the police taunted her when they learned her occupation and that she agreed to a tryst with the officer after it was suggested the criminal charges would disappear if she did.
Her lawyer, Tony Castro, said he was told a security video shows the two meeting but not engaging in any sexual behavior, which she contends occurred elsewhere.
Last week, Police Chief John Kapica suspended the officer without pay and reassigned his fellow officers in the street crime unit to other patrol posts. Police Internal Affairs and the Public Integrity Bureau of the Westchester County District Attorney's Office are investigating the matter. Kapica said police have seen evidence purporting to confirm that the woman and the officer met after her arrest. Police were also reviewing tapes from their headquarters.
The woman was arrested Jan. 21 in the parking lot of the Greenburgh Multiplex cinemas. She was charged with driving while ability impaired by drugs, a misdemeanor, and marijuana possession, a violation. She said she was sexually ridiculed after police found sex toys in her car and learned what she did for a living.
"From the very beginning, she was under the impression that if she did certain things, the charges would go away," Castro said, adding that the officer called her the next day to set up a sexual rendezvous.