Crime & Safety
Cop Shows Up To Work Smelling Of Alcohol, Gets Arrested: Report
A NYPD officer faces a driving while intoxicated charge after her arrest early Thursday in the Bronx, authorities said.
NEW YORK CITY — A Bronx cop's suspected boozy arrival at work prompted her arrest on a drunken driving charge, according to a report and authorities.
Kerry Badala, 38, faces a driving while intoxicated charge, authorities said. She was arrested Thursday at about 4:50 a.m. in the 47th Precinct in the Bronx.
That's about when Badala drove up to a Randall Avenue station house, got out of her vehicle on unsteady feet and reeked of alcohol, the New York Daily News reported.
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Badala apparently had left a station house two hours earlier before showing up intoxicated, the Daily News reported.
She's not the only Bronx cop arrested in the past day.
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Ramon Castro, 33, was arrested off duty early Friday on an assault charge, authorities said.
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