disgraced trooper<\/a>\u00a0for violating his oath before sentencing him.<\/p>\n\u201cTo say that you failed to meet those standards is a drastic understatement,\u201d Bogle said. \u201cI hope during your incarceration you will reflect on your misdeeds and abuse of official authority.<\/p>\n
Mascia\u2019s parents, Thomas and Dorothy, were hit with weapons charges but got off on Wednesday with probation and fines of $375 and $250, respectively. Dennis A. Clark<\/p>\n
\u201cEveryone started out rooting for you,\u201d the judge added. \u201cBut you led us on fraud and dangerous, outrageous behavior,\u201d calling the phony manhunt a \u201cwild goose chase.\u201d<\/p>\n
Prosecutors said the scheming cop pulled off the \u201cpathetic\u201d stunt on the Southern State Parkway in West Hempstead to gain sympathy from colleagues\u00a0to impress the\u00a0\u201cunrequited love,\u201d\u00a0who has not been identified.<\/p>\n
Donnelly said he telegraphed the scam with telling online searches, including for the phrase \u201cliver shot\u201d and an article titled, \u201cTrigger Warning: How does it feel to get shot?’\u201d<\/p>\n
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Mascia also texted a pal, claiming he had a \u201csixth sense\u201d that something bad would happen to him.<\/p>\n
\u201cLast time I had this feeling I got hit by a truck\u201d \u2014 a reference to an earlier wreck that prosecutors said was also staged.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The night of the\u00a0incident, the\u00a0trooper even scattered bullet casings along the roadway to try to sell the ruse.<\/p>\n
Mascia\u2019s parents will get no jail time on a separate gun rap. Brigitte Stelzer<\/p>\n
He was later taken to Nassau University Medical Center, then released in a wheelchair during a traditional police \u201cwalkout\u201d on Nov. 1, with dozens of law enforcement officers on hand.<\/p>\n
The\u00a0lie sparked\u00a0a manhunt in the region for the alleged cop-shooter, costing cops in the New York metro area,\u00a0sending law enforcement on a massive search for the fictitious \u201cAfrican-American\u201d shooter.<\/p>\n
Mascia, who resigned in disgrace on Jan. 24, faced three years behind bars, but got a break from Nassau County prosecutors in May when he pleaded guilty to official misconduct and tampering with evidence in exchange for a six-month prison term and five years of probation.<\/p>\n
Prosecutors defended the deal at the time, noting that Mascia would be spending time behind bars and will also have to pay $289,511 in restitution and a fine of $375.<\/p>\n
He was originally due to be sentenced in August but the proceedings were pushed back.<\/p>\n
Mascia was also served with an order of protection in court on Wednesday, but it is not entirely clear if the woman in question is the ex-girlfriend he was trying to impress.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Mascia cut a sweetheart deal in May after admitting that he shot himself and lied about a mysterious motorist wounding him during a late-night traffic stop on Oct. 30, 2024.<\/p>\n
The dirty trooper\u2019s parents, Thomas and Dorothy Mascia, were hit with weapons charges but got off on Wednesday with probation and fines of $375 and $250, respectively.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe actions of Thomas Mascia were a deliberate betrayal of the public\u2019s trust,\u201d State Police Superintendent Steven James said after the trooper\u00a0cut his plea deal in May<\/a>.<\/p>\n\u201cHis false report not only endangered the safety of responding officers and the public, but also undermined the credibility of every trooper who serves with honor and integrity,\u201d James said.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the ex-trooper\u2019s lawyer said his client was \u201cmortified at his behavior\u201d and regrets pulling off the stunt.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was a mistake, he regrets it, and he\u2019ll have to live with it the rest of his life,\u201d attorney Jeffrey Lichtman said. \u201cThe reasons we\u2019re here, obviously, are because of mental health issues.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s like nobody really wants to discuss the elephant in the room, which is, why did this occur?\u201d he said. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t just occur out of the blue. It occurs because it was a result of many years of mental health issues that were never treated.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A disgraced state trooper who faked his own shooting\u00a0in an apparent bid to get attention from a love…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12672,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[776,8606,57,9,11,10,104,242,3980,9960],"class_list":{"0":"post-12671","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-long-island","9":"tag-love","10":"tag-metro","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-headlines","13":"tag-new-york-news","14":"tag-police","15":"tag-police-shootings","16":"tag-shootings","17":"tag-state-troopers"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12671","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=12671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}