Thread: Perv cop filmed me & my baby in motel

Now this is a case where I do believe the Police are abusing their power, they would have another person sent to jail in order to save their own.

Brooklyn brass loses gun & badge for taking pix of lovers' passion



BY JUAN GONZALEZ and ALISON GENDAR
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS
Posted Thursday, May 17th 2007, 4:00 AM
A drunken New York City police captain was caught with his pants down outside a Brooklyn motel - allegedly peeping into a private room to film an unsuspecting couple having sex.
Capt. James Currie, a zone commander in Brooklyn South's detective bureau, has been relieved of his gun and his badge, police officials confirmed yesterday.

Currie, 44, checked himself into an alcohol treatment program a few hours after the alleged incident early Sunday, a police source said.
"What kind of sick thing is this?" said Henry Arias, 31, a carpenter who had taken his girlfriend to the Windjammer Motor Inn in Sheepshead Bay Saturday night to celebrate their one-year anniversary.

He paid $140 a night for a ground-floor room with a Jacuzzi, and the couple was reveling in the moment about 5a.m. when his girlfriend said she saw the window curtain move suspiciously.
Arias closed the curtain thinking he'd mistakenly left it open, but a few minutes later it was clear someone was outside.

He alerted a motel clerk, then went back to room 105 - and at his girlfriend's urging, made sure the window was locked.
When he pulled back the curtain, he was stunned to see a chubby Peeping Tom standing there.
"He's sliding the window open with one hand and had a flip phone pointing at us in the other. His zipper was open," Arias said in disgust.
"Who knows how long he was standing there, or what he filmed? The whole thing is sickening," he said.
Furious, Arias climbed through the window and chased the pervert to a nearby fence.

But what happened next was even more shocking.
"He says, 'Hey, I'm a cop!'
"I don't believe it, so I say, 'Show me your badge.' So he does - he pulls out a badge, and I see some kind of gun," Arias told the Daily News.
"He gave some lame story he was investigating my complaint, which is a lie, because I hadn't called the police yet. Then he said he was here with his girlfriend and someone had looked in his window," Arias recalled.
All Arias wanted to do was punch him.

"But he was so scared, he looked like that cat in the 'Shrek' movie, with the big eyes. That's the reason I didn't hit him, and that he might really be a cop and he'd shoot me," Arias said. "He kept saying, 'I'm sorry! I'm drunk.' And he was, he was bad drunk."
When Arias and motel staff dialed 911 and waited for cops, the pervert took off - but Arias managed to jot down the license plate of the man's dark SUV.

Cops took Arias to the local precinct to look at mug shots of criminals.
"I gave the license plate when we called 911, so they knew it wasn't one of the guys in the book," Arias said. "I looked at thousands of pictures of Russian gangsters. They really wanted me to pick one of them."
None was the pervert he had caught outside his window.

Later that afternoon, investigators from the NYPD's Internal Affairs Bureau came to his home with six photos of police officers in uniform.
"I picked him out right away. I circled his picture and signed it. He turned out to be a captain. How does that happen?" Arias asked. "It would be bad enough if it was some police officer, but a captain?"

Currie, who could not be reached for comment, faces a departmental hearing, but so far no criminal charges, sources said. The captain was placed on modified duty Sunday while IAB probed the allegation and whether Currie peeped at other couples, sources said.

Staff at the Windjammer confirmed Arias' account, and said cops were only able to catch the peeper because Arias had got the license plate.
Arias worried that his criminal past - a 10-year-old arrest for drugs and a gangbanger history - could hurt him, so he told his parole officer about it.

"I've been good for 10 years. What happened here, with a cop, is disgusting. You got to wonder how many other people he filmed."
He added that investigators tried to make him feel bad for taking his girlfriend, a 26-year-old receptionist, to the Windjammer.
"They said, why was I at a sleazy motel? This is America. I can be wherever. They should have been asking what their guy was doing looking in windows."
agendar@nydailynews.com
With Kerry Burke, Oren Yaniv and Veronika Belenkaya

Originally Posted by Yanick

Holy shit, lol. That's my neighborhood, i live like 10 blocks away from the Windjammer, and the local precinct is the 61. My buddy happens to be a cop in that precinct, i'm gonna get more lowdown about this tomorrow.

Ha ha, it's him!