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‘Bribe started with cops’
After days of silence, lawyer Gines Abellana yesterday spoke out about a P50,000 payoff made to police to get his client off the hook.
“They instigated it,” he said of the bribery attempt.
He accused Supt. Marvin Sanchez and two other police officers of demanding the amount from his client, a Talisay City woman arrested on suspicion of selling illegal drugs.
The lawyer’s role in the P50,000 payoff was earlier cited by the Regional Anti-Illegal Drugs Special Operations Task Group (RAIDSOTG-7), which arrested a policewoman earlier sent by Abellana to deliver the cash.<... Read more
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Officer Disciplined in D.W.I.
A New York City police officer has been disciplined as part of an internal inquiry into a fatal accident in Brooklyn that involved an off-duty officer who the police say was drunk, a person with knowledge of the inquiry said.
The officer who was disciplined was on duty and responded to a report of the crash early Sunday; he gave water to the off-duty officer, Andrew Kelly, whose sport utility vehicle struck and killed a 32-year-old woman, the person said. The responding officer, whose name was not released by the police, has been suspended without pay.
A Brooklyn grand jury will begin hearing testimony next week in the case involving Officer Kelly, officials said.
Officer Kelly, 30, appeared in Brooklyn Criminal Court on Friday and, through his lawyer, submitted a sympathy card he had written and asked that prosecutors present it to the family of the woman killed in the accident, Vionique Valnord.
“He wanted a way to express his condolences, so he wrote out a card with his personal sentiments to the family,” Arthur Aidala, the officer’s lawyer, said after the court proceedings. “Today and tomorrow are the memorials for the young woman, and our thoughts and prayers are with the young woman.”
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg was expected to attend Ms. Valnord’s wake in Brooklyn on Friday evening, an aide said.
Officer Kelly was charged with vehicular manslaughter and driving while intoxicated, the authorities said, after his S.U.V. struck Ms. Valnord about 1 a.m. on Sunday as she tried to flag down a taxi after leaving a wedding reception. Officer Kelly refused a blood-alcohol test at the scene; a blood test performed under subpoena seven hours later showed no alcohol in his system. He has pleaded not guilty to the charges and is free on $200,000 bail, Mr. Aidala said.
Officer Kelly has been suspended without pay for 30 days, the police have said. A second off-duty officer, Michael Downs, was a passenger in Officer Kelly’s vehicle, but left the scene shortly after the accident; he has been suspended for failing to render first aid and to identify himself to responding supervisors.
In court on Friday, Gayle Dampf-Littman, the chief of the Brooklyn district attorney’s office’s vehicular crimes bureau, told Judge Suzanne Mondo that the case against Officer Kelly would be presented to a grand jury next week. She added that Officer Kelly would have an opportunity to testify.
Mr. Aidala said he did not know whether his client would choose to testify. The lack of a blood-alcohol reading means prosecutors will have to rely on other evidence. A lieutenant who responded to a report of the crash said he saw Officer Kelly “exhibiting signs of intoxication: to wit, slurred speech, red watery eyes,” according to the criminal complaint in the case. A sergeant also noticed the smell of alcohol inside Officer Kelly’s 2006 Jeep Cherokee, the complaint said.
Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly said on Thursday that it might be impossible to discern how much alcohol Officer Kelly had in his system at the time of the crash. But he stressed, “This case is going forward; the investigation is continuing.”
Jerry Schmetterer, a spokesman for the Brooklyn district attorney, Charles J. Hynes, said on Friday, “We continue to prepare for trial.” He added, “We believe we have enough circumstantial and physical evidence to get a conviction in the case.”
The Police Department is conducting a separate internal inquiry into the initial police response and whether there was any attempt to help Officer Kelly conceal whether he was drunk.
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