Mastic Beach, NY, Jan. 4 – A second woman is claiming a Suffolk County police officer ordered her to strip and walk around naked after allegedly failing a sobriety test, an attorney said Thursday.
GARY GRAMER, WHO represents Angelina Torres, 27, said a second woman contacted him Wednesday. Although Juliana Rubio, 20, did not know the officer’s name, Gramer said her description fit Officer Frank Wright, who Torres said made her strip to her underwear early New Year’s Day and walk about four blocks to her home after he said she failed a sobriety test.
Wright, a nine-year veteran assigned to the highway patrol bureau, has been placed on administrative duty pending the outcome of an investigation.
Gramer notified police of Rubio’s complaint and filed a second lawsuit against the police and the county, asking for $15 million in punitive damages for Rubio.
Police confirmed that they received Rubio’s complaint but said it had not been determined if she was talking about the same officer.
Quoting unnamed police officials, Newsday also reported a third woman phoned police and made a similar complaint but said when the officer ordered her to strip, she refused. The newspaper said she would not give police her name.
Torres, who filed a $15 million lawsuit on Tuesday against the county and police, said she had a fight with her boyfriend and left a bar in Shirley when she pulled to the side of the highway to have a good cry.
She said Wright pulled up to check on her. After she admitted she had had two glasses of champagne, Torres said, he administered three different sobriety tests. He said she failed one, handcuffed her and placed her in the back of his patrol car, her attorney said.
After driving around for almost a half-hour, Wright stopped near her home and ordered her to strip to her underwear and walk four or five blocks to her home in the freezing cold.
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GARY GRAMER, WHO represents Angelina Torres, 27, said a second woman contacted him Wednesday. Although Juliana Rubio, 20, did not know the officer’s name, Gramer said her description fit Officer Frank Wright, who Torres said made her strip to her underwear early New Year’s Day and walk about four blocks to her home after he said she failed a sobriety test.
Wright, a nine-year veteran assigned to the highway patrol bureau, has been placed on administrative duty pending the outcome of an investigation.
Gramer notified police of Rubio’s complaint and filed a second lawsuit against the police and the county, asking for $15 million in punitive damages for Rubio.
Police confirmed that they received Rubio’s complaint but said it had not been determined if she was talking about the same officer.
Quoting unnamed police officials, Newsday also reported a third woman phoned police and made a similar complaint but said when the officer ordered her to strip, she refused. The newspaper said she would not give police her name.
Torres, who filed a $15 million lawsuit on Tuesday against the county and police, said she had a fight with her boyfriend and left a bar in Shirley when she pulled to the side of the highway to have a good cry.
She said Wright pulled up to check on her. After she admitted she had had two glasses of champagne, Torres said, he administered three different sobriety tests. He said she failed one, handcuffed her and placed her in the back of his patrol car, her attorney said.
After driving around for almost a half-hour, Wright stopped near her home and ordered her to strip to her underwear and walk four or five blocks to her home in the freezing cold.
Want to learn more?
http://www.msnbc.com/local/WNBC/1193633.asp
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-Administrator / Owner
"Everything was true. God was an astronaut. Oz really is over the
rainbow. ...and Midian is where the monsters live." -Nightbreed