Emily Hirshowitz, Ossining Police officer, former NY cop of the year who blamed colleagues for bullying texts busted sending messages to herself.
Reject! A New York police officer has been charged with sending herself bullying messages and falsely blaming the barrage on her co-workers.
Emily Hirshowitz of the Ossining Police Department complained to local authorities in May, July, and August 2022 about texts that she had allegedly received which called her a ‘reject’ and ‘useless’ and worse, only to have been sending them all along to herself according to investigators.
Prosecutors reportedly had traced the phone numbers behind the messages to Hirshowitz, 36, and believe she also had an accomplice.
Come Wednesday, the Westchester District Attorney’s Office charged Hirshowitz with four counts of third-degree falsely reporting an incident, along with three counts of first-degree filing a false instrument.
What else did she lie about?
The latter is a felony which accuses her of filing a report with the intention of defrauding.
‘There’s a lot of mystery and confusion surrounding the allegations in this case and we’ll evaluate as we learn more,’ her lawyer, Paul DerOhannesian, told the nypost.
The rogue cop had claimed that ‘a fellow police officer or multiple police officers at my department are involved,’ according to court documents obtained by The Journal News.
In July and then in August, Hirshowitz complained again, and gave investigators screen-grabs showing long expletive-filled messages urging her to commit suicide and calling her ‘useless,’ a ‘dumb [expletive],’ and a ‘reject.’
Police and local officials were so alarmed by what was described as the messages’ “increasingly threatening content,” that they reached out to the DA to investigate further, before Hirshowitz said she wanted to drop the complaint on August 12.
Investigators reportedly were quick to suspect Hirshowitz, and by October issued a search warrant of her phone and digital accounts.
Prosecutors said the evidence quickly indicated she was in charge of several of the phone numbers that the menacing messages had come from, and that she’d likely sent them to herself.
Following her charges last week, Hirshowitz was suspended with pay.
Hirshowitz joined the Ossining Police Department in 2016, and in 2018 was named the employee of the year by the local Rotary Club branch.
She is due to appear at the White Plains City Court on July 12.
Questions have since arisen as to what else the rogue cop may have lied about and potential innocent individuals who she may have arrested, falsified records, charges against or simply had a bias against.
No known motive was immediately known.
