Posted on 01/29/2016 4:50:01 PM PST by CaptainK
The mall cops would have done better investigating this caper. A 48-year-old Long Island woman who was arrested for stealing a diamond sapphire ring from a jewelry store is suing the Nassau County detectives now that she has been exonerated by surveillance tape showing the real thief.
Angela Bianco was shopping elsewhere in Roosevelt Field Mall on Oct. 27, 2014 when the grand larceny went down inside Helzberg Diamonds, according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday in federal court.
An unidentified man and a woman, clearly in their 20s, stole the ring valued at $2,499 when a clerk's back was turned, the suit states. The crooks left behind a stolen driver's license and credit card, neither of which had any link to Bianco.
Three weeks later, Lt. Vincent Boden and Detective Gennaro DeStefano showed up at Bianco's home in Syosset where she lives with her parents. It is unclear what led the investigators to Bianco — and they wouldn't tell her what she was under arrest for, the suit alleges.
"You know exactly what you did…you and your boyfriend," DeStefano reportedly told her.
Bianco does not have a boyfriend, and had a mountain of evidence showing she was innocent, including receipts from Aerosoles and New York & Company, where she had been shopping at the time of the heist.
She proclaimed her innocence so strenuously, the cops took her to a psych ward for evaluation while booking her for grand larceny.
The charges were dropped last February after a Nassau County prosecutor admitted in court that Bianco was not the woman crook in the video.
"What makes this case so disturbing is that prior to her arrest, an elementary school child would have easily concluded that Angela Bianco was clearly innocent," said her lawyer Anthony Grandinette. "Had police just taken a moment to listen rather than ridicule, these events would have never transpired."
The Nassau County attorney's office did not return a call for comment.
The cops in question sound exactly like my brother in law on the Fort Worth PD.
Corrected it for you. The taxpayers select what police they have at the ballot box. Any consequences of bad behavior by the people the taxpayers hire quite properly falls on those same taxpayers. If they don't like the consequences they might choose to install a different sort of law enforcement.
Isn’t that the same Co. where the Martin Tanklef murder case took place? They looked like fools then, also.
That was Suffolk County.
And it only took four months for the prosecutor office dumbshits to decipher the evidence did it?
How many other other investigations have these retard sleuths bungled? If there was a shred of justice in the world she should be able to collect their retirement pay.
This will never go to a civil trial, just imagine what a good plaintiff attorney would make them look like on the witness stand.
Does the New York City area have any lawyers?
I love that thought
It ain’t the cops being cleaned out with a lawsuit, it’s the taxpayers. The cops responsible need to be hit hard in their salaries, pensions and bennies, not the taxpayers.
“I’m not saying the cops are bad, I’m saying when you sue the cops they might not be in such a rush to come out there though.”
Actually you are saying the cops are bad, when you say they won’t rush out to you and do their job just because you asserted your rights and sought to be made whole in court after they wronged you.
That is as bad or crooked as cops can be. I hope not but I fear you are right.
Just another reason why I left Long Island, a long time ago. circa 1978.
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