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