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Narcotics Detective Arrested by Feds for Sexual Misconduct
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John Del Signore
Published May 18, 2010
Modified May 18, 2010
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Published May 18, 2010
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A 13-year Queens North narcotics detective was arrested today on sexual misconduct charges, concluding a multi-year investigation by Internal Affairs and the FBI. Oscar Sandino, 37, is accused of forcing a woman he arrested during a February 2008 drug raid to perform oral sex on him in the precinct bathroom. Before that—during the arrest—he allegedly took her into her bedroom and forced her to undress, and later told her that she was going to jail and would lose her children unless she had sex with him.
After taking her into the precinct bathroom, Sandino allegedly pulled down her pants and said, "Wow, you have an earring down there. Now I know I can trust you." (Because genital piercings change color whenever you tell a lie?) And after she was released from custody, Sandino told her that he expected her to have sex with him at a later time, and allegedly called the victim on numerous occasions. She subsequently reported Sandino’s misconduct to NYPD’s Internal Affairs Bureau, which began an investigation, and in March 2008 he was removed from active duty.
And it doesn't end there! Sandido allegedly engaged in similar misconduct in the summer of 2006, when he coerced a female cousin of a drug dealer to have sex with him after falsely telling her the cousin faced a long prison term. And despite being kept off active duty, Sandino allegedly kept at it. Last September, he escorted a handcuffed woman who had been arrested for disorderly conduct into a private room at the stationhouse and made her expose her breasts, officials say. Federal prosecutors Pamela Chen and Licha Nyiendo said the evidence is "substantial and irrefutable."
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John Del Signore
Originally from the Albany area, John Del Signore has called NYC home since 1995. In addition to his thousands of meticulously-crafted bespoke blog posts for Gothamist, his writing has also been published in The Awl, Deadspin, The Nervous Breakdown, and performed at The Brick Theater in Brooklyn.
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