Global Courant
A New York police officer has been arrested on criminal charges after she allegedly sent herself threatening text messages and then blamed her colleagues, the Westchester District Attorney’s Office said.
Ossining police officer Emily Hirshowitz was charged last Wednesday with three counts of first-degree filing a false instrument, misdemeanor and four counts of third-degree falsely reporting an incident, according to the Westchester Journal News.
Hirshowitz joined the force in 2016 after serving as an officer in New Rochelle for two years, the report said. In 2018, she received the Employee of the Year award from the Ossining Rotary Club, which was celebrated by the police on its own Facebook page.
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Later that same August, the police chief reportedly held a mandatory staff meeting — to which the mayor and other village leaders were invited — to discuss the reports.
Ossining Police Department in New York (Police station Ossining/FB)