Former NYPD Officer Sentenced In Murder-For-Hire Plot: Feds

CENTRAL ISLIP, NY — Former NYPD officer Valerie Cincinelli, who lives in Oceanside, was sentenced to 48 months in prison on Friday for a murder-for-hire plot involving her estranged husband, the US Attorney's office announced.

Cincinelli was arrested in 2019 after a grand jury returned a three-count indictment that included obstruction of justice, the U.S. Attorney's office said.

With 30 months time served and credit for good behavior, Cincinelli, 37, could receive home confinement in the next few months, Newsday reported.

At 60 months, prosecutors were seeking above the 46-57 month guidelines due to the "seriousness" of her conduct and "flagrant disregard" for the law overall, and in her role as a police officer, the Office for US Attorney, Eastern District of New York, said in a statement.

Cincinelli was in discussions with having a hitman kill her ex-husband Isaiah Carvalho, who she was going through divorce proceedings at the time to keep him from getting a portion of her police pension, the US Attorney said.

She also wanted to have her boyfriend's teenaged daughter killed, "essentially out of sheer jealously and personal hatred," federal prosecutors said in the sentencing memo.

Cincinelli was an NYPD for 12 years at the 106th Precinct in Queens. She was suspended without pay after the May 2019 arrest and resigned from the job in March, Newsday said.