Former NYPD Sgt. Erik Duran’s fate was in the hands of a judge today after being found guilty in February for the 2023 death of Eric Duprey.<\/p>\n
A judge sentenced\u00a0Duran to three to nine years. The Bronx District Attorney’s office requested three to nine years of jail time. Duran’s defense attorney said “incarceration is entirely inappropriate”.<\/p>\n
Duran, from Mahopac, was on trial for Duprey’s\u00a0death during a botched drug bust in Kingsbridge Heights in August 2023.\u00a0In February he was found guilty on the manslaughter charge but not guilty of criminally negligent homicide.<\/p>\n
The incident was caught on surveillance video. It showed Duran, in plain clothes, throwing a cooler at Duprey as he tried to get away on a motorbike.<\/p>\n
Duprey was knocked off and killed. Duprey’s family says he died an “unfair death”.<\/p>\n
Black Lives Matter of Greater New York and Duprey’s relatives had been pushing for the maximum sentence.<\/p>\n
The Sergeants Benevolent Association handed over a petition with over 11,000 signatures calling for no jail time in the case. Duran, who lives in Mahopac with his family, pleaded\u00a0not guilty in this case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former NYPD Sgt. Erik Duran’s fate was in the hands of a judge today after being found guilty…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":191050,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-191049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191049","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=191049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}