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SPRING VALLEY -The village Board of Trustees suspended Police Officer David Lebron without pay yesterday pending a civil service hearing on departmental charges.
Lebron, 38, a police officer for 15 years, faces a number of departmental charges. The accusations are based on criminal accusations that he sexually abused a woman and filed phony police reports.
Lebron faces dismissal from the police department as a result of the departmental hearing or any conviction of the criminal charges.
Lebron can remain suspended without pay indefinitely, pe... Read more
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Newsday - Long Island,NY,USA
10 April 2009
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Two police officers were acquitted Friday of nearly all the charges brought against them after a Fire Island tourist suffered a ruptured bladder in their custody.
On their ninth day of deliberations, jurors found Ocean Beach acting Police Chief George Hesse, 40, of East Islip, not guilty of the top two counts against him - first-degree gang assault and second-degree assault - along with reckless endangerment and several other charges. The jury remains deadlocked on a lesser charge of third-degree assault, a misdemeanor with a maximum sentence of a year in jail. Jurors will continue deliberating Monday.
The jury also acquitted Officer Arnold Hardman, 53, of St. James, of his top count of reckless endangerment, as well as filing false documents and other charges. The jury will continue deliberating an official misconduct charge - also a misdemeanor - against both officers.
State Supreme Court Justice William Condon, along with lawyers for both sides, agreed to let jurors deliver a partial verdict after they reported over several days being deadlocked on just a few charges.
As the jury's forewoman quietly repeated "not guilty" in the Riverhead courtroom, Hardman and Hesse exhaled, visibly relieved, but stood still.
Seated behind them in the court, Hardman's wife, Sharon, squeezed her sister's hand; Hesse's wife, Shannon, clutched a tissue and cried. "I'm relieved, yes," Shannon Hesse said as she left court, declining to say more.
"This trial is still ongoing," said Hardman's lawyer, Stephen Worth of Roslyn Heights. "All we can say at this point is we're extremely happy and gratified at how hard the jury has worked."
Hesse's lawyer, William Keahon of Islandia, declined to comment.
Suffolk prosecutors have said Hesse punched and stomped on a former Manhattan man, Sam Gilberd, 36, on Aug. 28, 2005. Gilberd had been present during most of the deliberations but said Wednesday he was returning to Los Angeles because his wife was about to give birth. He did not respond to a request for comment Friday.
On the night of his injury, Gilberd arrived at the Ocean Beach police station to receive a ticket for littering. The defense says Gilberd became profanely belligerent with police, and both sides acknowledge that, upon leaving the police station, Gilberd kicked the building's front door.
Police pulled Gilberd back inside, where the defense says his bladder - bloated from heavy drinking - burst in a fall.
Prosecutors say the injury occurred after Hesse lost his temper and booted Gilberd twice in the abdomen.
In the wake of his injury, Gilberd sued the officers in federal court in Brooklyn for $22 million in damages. Gilberd's lawyer in the case, D. Carl Lustig of Manhattan, said the suit is still pending but declined to comment Friday.
After Gilberd filed suit, Suffolk District Attorney Thomas Spota made headlines here and in New York City with an announcement of criminal charges and accusations of "a police department gone wild."
Hardman and Hesse's acquittal of reckless endangerment could allow their lawyers to seek dismissal of the official misconduct count before deliberations resume Monday.
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