New York cop allegedly despatched herself menacing texts, then blamed colleagues: prosecutor

A police officer in New York was once arrested on legal fees after allegedly sending herself menacing textual content messages after which blaming her colleagues, in keeping with the Westchester District Lawyer’s Workplace.

Ossining police officer Emily Hirshowitz was once charged closing Wednesday with 3 counts of first-degree submitting a false tool, a legal, and 4 counts of third-degree falsely reporting an incident, in keeping with the Westchester Magazine Information. 

Hirshowitz joined the pressure in 2016 after serving as an officer for 2 years in New Rochelle, the document mentioned. In 2018, she gained the Worker of the Yr award from the Rotary Membership of Ossining, which was once celebrated via the police division by itself Fb web page. 

In Might of closing yr, Hirshowitz reportedly filed a grievance with the DA’s workplace referring to harassing and nameless texts she gained on her non-public telephone. She claimed “{that a} fellow police officer or a couple of cops at my division are concerned” and driven for an investigation to reveal the alleged offender, in keeping with the Magazine Information. 

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She despatched screenshots of the messages to investigators, which incorporated notes urging her to devote suicide and others declaring she is a “dumb [expletive],” “needless” and a “reject,” in keeping with the legal grievance reviewed via the Westchester Magazine Information.

Ossining police and native leaders quickly become concerned and reached out to the DA to flag how “more and more threatening” the “content material” of the messages had turn into, in keeping with the court docket paperwork. The leaders’ enter rallied the DA’s workplace to proceed investigating the subject in spite of Hirshowitz telling the workplace on Aug. 12, 2022, that she did not need to proceed pursuing the grievance. 

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Later that very same August, the police leader reportedly held a compulsory group of workers assembly – with the mayor and different village leaders invited to wait – to speak about the messages. 

The Ossining Police Division in New York (Ossining Police Division/FB)

By means of October, the DA’s workplace got a warrant to go looking Hirshowitz’s telephone and Apple iCloud account, following hypothesis that 8 of the screenshots originated from her. Investigators alleged that she was once the most probably supply of the messages, discovering that a number of telephone numbers that despatched the messages had been owned via the police officer. 

The court docket paperwork contained a footnote explaining investigators consider someone else who is understood to the DA’s workplace was once hooked up to a few different messages that had been despatched to Hirshowitz.

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“The WCDAO can’t pursue legal fees comparable to those textual content messages right now,” the footnote learn, in keeping with the newspaper.

Court docket paperwork reviewed via the opening don’t cite any officer in particular who could have despatched the messages, however an area legal professional mentioned his consumer, former Ossining police Officer Louis Rinaldi, is the topic of an investigation.

Ossining police officer Emily Hirshowitz when she joined the pressure. (Ossining Police Division/FB)

Rinaldi resigned closing yr following unrelated disciplinary fees. His legal professional mentioned Rinaldi’s title got here up all over police interviews in regards to the textual content messages.

Hirshowitz was once launched following her arrest closing week and is scheduled to look in White Plains Town Court docket on July 12, in keeping with her legal professional, Paul DerOhannesian. 

“There is a large number of thriller and confusion surrounding the allegations on this case and we will review as we be informed extra,” the legal professional informed the Magazine Information.

She was once suspended with pay in June, in keeping with the opening.  

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The Ossining Police Division, the DA’s workplace, Rinaldi’s legal professional and Hirshowitz’s legal professional didn’t instantly reply to Fox Information Virtual’s request for extra touch upon Sunday.