Former Yonkers Cop Sentenced in Lying Case

Former Yonkers Police Officer Neil Vera was sentenced Thursday to six months of weekends at the County Jail in connection with guilty pleas on perjury and official misconduct charges, Westchester County District Attorney Janet DiFiore announced.

Vera and fellow Off. Christian Koch lied to obtain a search warrant to mislead a Yonkers City Court Judge, prosecutors said.

“Additionally, on May 20th, 2014, Police Officer Vera asked a person identified to the Grand Jury to lie to investigators and provide a false written statement to police officers of the Internal Affairs Division of the City of Yonkers Police Department,” according to DiFiore. “He asked that individual to make a false statement to the Yonkers Police Internal Affairs investigators identifying himself/herself as an individual who had performed controlled narcotics buys at 141 School Street in support of the search warrant, when in fact this was completely false.”

Koch also pled guilty to similar charges and is scheduled to be sentenced on September 10.

Assistant District Attorney Berit Huseby and Assistant District Attorney Brian Fitzgerald of the Public Integrity Bureau are prosecuted the case.

Photo: Neil Vera. Photo credit: Westchester County District Attorney’s office

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