Sheepshead Bay ex-EMT arrested for
stealing prescription pills in 2017
BY JESSICA PARKS
Federal agents arrested an
ex-EMT from Sheepshead Bay
on the morning of Sept. 15 for
allegedly stealing nearly 200
oxycodone pills from a drug
dealer in 2017.
The 28-year-old defendant,
who is the son of a high-ranking
FDNY offi cial, is said to
have impersonated a cop in
July 2017 by brandishing a
fake police badge and falsely
arresting a man with plastic
handcuffs before confi scating
nearly 180 prescribed oxycodone
pills and fl eeing from
the scene on 63rd Street between
17th and 18th avenues
in Bensonhurst.
The defendant was initially
arrested as a suspect
for the crime in October 2017,
but the complaint states the
Kings County District Attorney
refused to prosecute him
because the accuser had not
made an in-person identifi cation
of the suspect.
The man was arrested days
prior to the incident in Staten
Island for again impersonating
a cop — a charge that was
later dropped, the complaint
states — and the arresting offi
cer later went on to identify
him as the suspect of the robbery
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in Bensonhurst.
According to court documents,
the accuser originally
misled police on his own activity
when initially speaking
with him in 2017 where he
did not disclose that pills were
taken or that he had made
plans to meet a buyer at the
scene of the crime to sell them
his prescription pills.
When the suspect was fi rst
arrested in 2017 for the alleged
mugging, he had said to the offi
cers “you know that the guy I
robbed is a drug dealer, right?
The news made it sound worse
than it was. I was just in a bad
place and fi gured he was a bad
guy and I needed pills. I didn’t
think it out, I didn’t think he
would call the cops.”
The suspect has been the
subject of previous news reports
in 2017 when critics
called on the FDNY to terminate
him from his post as an
EMT, claiming that he would
fail to show up for 911 requests
and having impersonated a
cop on multiple occasions.
If convicted on the charge
of Hobbs Act robbery, the defendant
can face up to 20 years
in prison. He posted bail with
a $150,000 bond, according
to prosecutors, and his next
court appearance has not yet
been scheduled.
The suspect’s attorney,
Amanda David from the Federal
Defenders of New York,
declined comment.
REUTERS/Lucas Jackson
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