Queens cop charged with insurance fraud - Queens Chronicle
Niculae then allegedly drove the car to Jersey City, NJ, where another individual helped him set fire to it because Niculae “could not keep up the payments on the vehicle. Police discovered through license plate readers stationed at several New York City highways and bridge and tunnel crossings that Niculae’s car was driven across the Williamsburg Bridge on Aug. Police also said that Niculae’s cell phone records allegedly show he was in Jersey City, near where his car would later be discovered by the city’s fire officials around 11:23 p. m. that evening. Brown said that in a statement made to one of his investigators, Niculae said he originally hoped the car would be vandalized or stolen in Jersey City. “As a member of the police department, the defendant was sworn to uphold the law,” Brown said in a press release. The defendant was awaiting arraignment on a criminal complaint charging him with first- and second-degree perjury, third-degree insurance fraud, making an apparently sworn false statement and others. Source: www.qchron.com
