An NYPD captain in Brooklyn has been positioned on desk obligation and is beneath investigation after what sources described as a scuffle with the commander of a housing police precinct over whose officers would get credit score for a gun arrest, the Each day Information has realized.
Captain Adan Munoz, the chief officer or second-in-command of the 79th Precinct in Bedford-Stuyvesant, was modified on Sunday, a personnel order states.
“The incident is under review by the Internal Affairs Bureau. The Captain’s duty status is modified,” an NYPD spokesperson stated in an emailed assertion.
A number of sources with information of the incident informed The Information that the brouhaha started when officers from each a 79th Precinct Neighborhood Security Group and Housing Public Servicee Space, PSA 3, in Brooklyn North arrived on the scene of a name for a household dispute involving a firearm.
The officers from PSA 3 wrestled with one of many individuals on the location over a bag which fell to the bottom. The 79th Precinct security crew officers then discovered a gun within the bag.
The cops from the 2 totally different instructions — which overlap one another geographically — then started arguing over which unit ought to get the arrest, the sources stated. Gun arrests are extremely valued within the NYPD and are sometimes touted within the division’s social media posts. Extra particulars concerning the arrest itself weren’t immeditaley obtainable.
Captain Elton Cohn, the PSA 3 commander, instructed a sergeant with the 79th Precinct that the arrest was to be credited to his officers. He allegedly threatened to droop the sergeant if he didn’t comply, the sources stated.
Captain Elton D. Cohn (NYPD)
The sergeant known as his commander, Munoz, who was off obligation at a Lengthy Island restaurant, the sources stated. Munoz informed the sergeant to disregard Cohn and enter the arrest within the NYPD’s database — and to credit score it to the 79th Precinct officers.
Munoz then drove to the 79th Precinct stationhouse on Tompkins Ave. close to Greene Ave., the sources stated, the place he and Cohn bought into an argument. Sources stated Munoz shoved him as they argued. After a 3rd shove, Cohen “defended himself,” the sources stated. The fracas was caught on precinct safety cameras, the sources stated.
A supply with information of the incident downplayed the severity of the bodily contact, saying it was “just a shoving match.”
Inner Affairs was contacted and a sequence of interviews had been carried out. Munoz was positioned on desk obligation Sunday afternoon and assigned to the Manhattan Court docket part, the personnel order states.
There was no indication any disciplinary motion had been taken in opposition to Cohn.
Munoz has been promoted twice previously two years – from sergeant to lieutenant in June 2022 and to captain in November 2023.
In March, The Information beforehand reported, he was caught on video pistol-whipping an arrest suspect throughout a visitors cease.Inner Affairs was additionally investigating that incident, The Information reported.
In response to the video, Munoz in an unmarked automotive, stopped motorist Melvin Oliphant in Bedford-Stuyvesant on March 27. The 2 males scuffled and Munoz struck Oliphant on the brow along with his gun, then kicked him a number of occasions earlier than uniformed officers arrived. The end result of the investigation was unclear on Tuesday.
Accordiing to the 50-a web site, which aggregates NYPD conduct reviews from a wide range of sources, Munoz has been a defendant with different cops in 14 lawsuits which have settled for a complete of $846,501.The location additionally reviews 18 civilian complaints have been filed in opposition to him between 2008 and 2024 with 10 substantiated.
