Ny Manhunt Aftermath: Ex-State-Trooper is guilty of shoting yourself and deceiving the crime scene

May 21 (Upi) – A former police officer of York State Police owed himself guilty on Wednesday that the prosecutors said that the fake crime scene was to win a plan for sympathy.

The 27 -year -old former Trooper Thomas Mascia admitted to court that on October 30, after he claimed, he was injured by an unknown shooter near the exit 17 of the New York Southern State Parkway while checking himself for a disabled vehicle.

The resident of West Hempstead is guilty of manipulating physical evidence, wrongly reporting a police incident and officially misconduct.

It is expected that he is served in prison for six months, five years of probation and subject to continued psychological treatment and have to pay more than 289,500 US dollars in reimbursement.

Mascia admitted that he spread mussels in the alleged scene and then drove into his state vehicle to the nearby Hempstead Lake State Park, where he then shot himself with the same caliber rifle, which was loaded with the same shells on the highway. It is where he returned and called in the staged incident.

“You weren't shot by someone else?” Asked the deputy district prosecutor of Nassau, to whom Mascia replied: “Yes.”

His actions had triggered a nationwide search for the alleged vehicle mascia until the investigators found that the shot was self-inflicted.

The lawyer of Mascia, Jeffrey Lichtman, said that the Mascia also lied to be driven by a car from a car during a presumed incident in 2022, and added that the state police officers missed the signs of intellectual stress, which, according to Lichtman, prompted the staged event in October.

The former state troops recorded a delayed plea deal at the beginning of this month, after Mascia was accidentally expressed that he was not in good mental health.

On Wednesday he said “yes” after the judge asked whether he was in a good mental state.

In addition, the parents of the mascies of criminal possession of a firearm were charged.

Thomas Mascia Sr., a former NYPD officer until his conviction in the nineties because of his role in a cocaine ring, was charged after a search of the house in connection with the incident had uncovered an illegal stylus in the attack with around $ 80,000 in cash.

In the meantime, Mascia is expected to be convicted on August 20.