A suburban New York police officer sent herself a series of vile and threatening text messages and claimed she had been harassed by her colleagues, prosecutors said.
Ossining Police Officer Emily Hirshowitz, 36, filed reports with the Westchester County District Attorney’s Office dating back to May of last year, detailing anonymous and threatening messages she had allegedly been receiving, according to a criminal complaint filed in White Plains City Court last week.
Hirshowitz had said that “a fellow officer or multiple officers from my department are involved,” according to a complaint written by Westchester County Criminal Investigator Michael Garcia.
The expletive-filled texts urged her to take her own life, calling her “stupid,” “useless,” and “rejected.”
But investigators discovered that the text messages were sent from phone numbers linked to Hirshowitz using apps that had his email and IP addresses associated with them, according to the complaint.
She has been charged with three counts of allegedly offering a false filing instrument and four counts of falsely reporting an incident.
Hirshowitz’s attorney could not immediately be reached for comment Monday.
And of three publicly listed phone numbers linked to Hirshowitz, two were disconnected and one caller said it was the wrong number.
The officer is on administrative leave from her job, said a representative for the Ossining Police Department, who declined to comment further.
She was arrested Wednesday and her next court appearance is scheduled for July 12.
