{"id":122475,"date":"2026-02-04T10:51:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T10:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/122475\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T10:51:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T10:51:08","slug":"news-12-westchester-closing-arguments-held-in-bronx-trial-of-putnam-county-nypd-sergeant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/122475\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Westchester | Closing arguments held in Bronx trial of Putnam County NYPD sergeant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Closing arguments were delivered Tuesday in the Bronx in the trial of an NYPD sergeant from Putnam County accused of killing a man with a cooler.<\/p>\n<p>The defendant, Erik Duran, is accused in the death of Eric Duprey two years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Duran was working undercover when he tried to make a drug arrest but targeted the wrong man, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n<p>They said Duran threw a heavy cooler at Duprey\u2019s head as he drove, killing him, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n<p>The defense said Duran was forced to make a life-or-death decision and described the suspect as a deadly threat.<\/p>\n<p>Duran faces up to 25 years in prison if convicted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Closing arguments were delivered Tuesday in the Bronx in the trial of an NYPD sergeant from Putnam County&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122476,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":{"0":"post-122475","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-the-bronx","8":"tag-bronx","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-city","11":"tag-nyc","12":"tag-the-bronx","13":"tag-the-bronx-headlines","14":"tag-the-bronx-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}