Post by KC on Jul 12, 2006 21:25:46 GMT -5
July 12, 2006 - Two off-duty police officers and an off-duty correction officer were arrested yesterday in unrelated incidents, the police said.
Officer Milton Smith, 44, a patrol officer in the 46th Precinct in the Bronx, was arrested after officers saw him buying marijuana at West 179th Street and University Avenue in Morris Heights at 4:15 a.m., the police said.
He was charged with possession of marijuana, the authorities said.
About 5 a.m., Officer Roberto Bharat, 28, an officer in the 103rd Precinct in Queens, was arrested and charged with assault after he allegedly slapped his girlfriend, the authorities said. Her name was not released.
Officer Smith has been a police officer since 1995, and Officer Bharat joined the force in 2001, the police said. Both were suspended from duty, the police said.
Yesterday's arrest of the correction officer, Raul Malave, 43, was related to a dispute on Thursday. That day, he was driving a car that clipped a carpet being carried across a street in Woodside, Queens, a law enforcement official said.
Officer Malave and two carpet delivery men exchanged words, and the officer lifted his shirt to show them his gun, the official said.
Officer Malave, who works at Rikers Island, faces charges including menacing and harassment, according to a spokeswoman for Richard A. Brown, the Queens district attorney.
www.nytimes.com/2006/07/09/nyregion/09cops.html
Officer Milton Smith, 44, a patrol officer in the 46th Precinct in the Bronx, was arrested after officers saw him buying marijuana at West 179th Street and University Avenue in Morris Heights at 4:15 a.m., the police said.
He was charged with possession of marijuana, the authorities said.
About 5 a.m., Officer Roberto Bharat, 28, an officer in the 103rd Precinct in Queens, was arrested and charged with assault after he allegedly slapped his girlfriend, the authorities said. Her name was not released.
Officer Smith has been a police officer since 1995, and Officer Bharat joined the force in 2001, the police said. Both were suspended from duty, the police said.
Yesterday's arrest of the correction officer, Raul Malave, 43, was related to a dispute on Thursday. That day, he was driving a car that clipped a carpet being carried across a street in Woodside, Queens, a law enforcement official said.
Officer Malave and two carpet delivery men exchanged words, and the officer lifted his shirt to show them his gun, the official said.
Officer Malave, who works at Rikers Island, faces charges including menacing and harassment, according to a spokeswoman for Richard A. Brown, the Queens district attorney.
www.nytimes.com/2006/07/09/nyregion/09cops.html