A New York State Police trooper whose alleged shooting sparked a manhunt last fall pleaded not guilty on Monday to charges he falsified the incident, hours after turning himself in to authorities. He ...
Mascia, 27, had been under scrutiny since claiming in October that he had been shot in the leg by a suspect on Long Island’s Southern State Parkway in West Hempstead. Mascia had told ...
When Trooper Thomas Mascia reported that he’d been shot last fall, it set off a multiday, multistate manhunt for a vehicle and driver that authorities now say he made up entirely.
Prosecutors say that back on October 30, the trooper pulled on the shoulder of the Southern State Parkway near Hempstead and dumped a handful 22 caliber shells. Prosecutors say he then drove to ...