An ex-state corrections officer who posed as a cop to “prey” on ladies he pulled over on Lengthy Island roadways pleaded responsible to criminal-impersonation expenses Tuesday, authorities mentioned.
David Olivari, 38, of Coram was nabbed in a sting in February and charged with pulling over a feminine motorist earlier within the 12 months and making an attempt to drive her to offer nude photographs of herself, the Suffolk County District Lawyer’s Workplace mentioned.
On Tuesday, Olivari pleaded responsible to first-degree criminal-impersonation expenses.
“This defendant repeatedly endangered Suffolk County motorists by conducting site visitors stops for which he had neither authority nor coaching,” Suffolk DA Raymond Tierney mentioned in a press release.
“The message right here is that nobody is above the regulation, together with a corrections officer who acted so egregiously exterior of his official duties in trying to prey upon in any other case unsuspecting feminine motorists.”
Olivari used his grey 2007 Toyota Prius, which was outfitted with dashboard flashing lights, to drag over not less than two ladies driving alone on Lengthy Island parkways whereas claiming he was a police officer.
On Jan. 22, prosecutors mentioned, the then-corrections officer pulled over one girl on a Lengthy Island Expressway service highway round 3 a.m. and took her cellphone.
Olivari then focused one other girl the subsequent evening on Shenandoah Boulevard in Nesconset, authorities mentioned.
“The same grievance was made by [the] second girl,” Suffolk police mentioned on the time of Olivari’s arrest.
Olivari later referred to as the primary girl making an attempt to get her to ship him nude photographs and organized to satisfy her on Veterans Memorial Freeway in Commack, the place cops had been ready.
He was launched with out bail after pleading responsible and is because of be sentenced subsequent 12 months, dealing with anyplace from parole to as much as 4 years behind bars.
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