NYPD Officer From LI Indicted In Murder-For-Hire Plot

An NYPD officer from Long Island was indicted today on charges that she tried to hire a hit man to murder her husband and her boyfriend's teenage daughter.

Valerie Cincinelli, 34, of Oceanside, was charged with two counts of murder for hire and one count of obstruction of justice, according to court documents. If convicted, she faces up to 10 years in prison for the charges of murder for hire, and 20 years for obstruction.

According to the FBI, Cincinelli -- who was arrested on May 17 -- began planning in February, when she asked her boyfriend, 54-year-old John DiRubba, to hire a hitman to kill her husband and his daughter, who is less than 18. DiRubba told her he knew someone who would do it for $7,000, the FBI said. On Feb. 18, the FBI said Cincinelli withdrew $7,000 from a TD Bank in Wantagh and gave it to DiRubba, who then went to a dealership in Massapequa Park and had it converted into gold coins to pay a hitman.

Between February and May, the FBI said that Cincinelli and DiRubba continued to discuss the murder plot, both in person and over the phone. On May 8, the FBI said that DiRubba told her that the hitman was going to carry out the murders over the weekend, and he was concerned about both people being killed at the same time. Cincinelli told him to tell the hitman to kill the daughter over the weekend, and then wait a week or month to kill her husband, the FBI said.

The FBI said that Cincinelli also routinely checked the daughter's social media to see where she was, so the hitman could be informed.

On May 13, Cincinelli and DiRubba met again to discuss the murders, the FBI said, and DiRubba recorded the conversation at the direction of the FBI. Cincinelli was told that the hitman would kill her husband by his place of work in Holtsville, the FBI said, and Cincinelli thought it was good because it would take place in "the hood" or "the ghetto." She also said it would look like he was killed for money he made selling fireworks, the FBI said.

Later that day, the FBI said that DiRubba told her the hitman requested an extra $3,000 to kill his daughter, and that he wouldn't do it near a school. The two discussed their alibis for the murders, the FBI said, and Cincinelli allegedly claimed that she would be home at the time, which would divert investigators away from her.

The two then talked about how the murders would take place, the FBI said. When told that the hitman didn't want to murder DiRubba's daughter near a school, Cincinelli said, "[r]un her the f*** over, how about that," according to the FBI.

On May 17, the Suffolk County Police Department, at the direction of FBI investigators, visited Cincinelli's home and informed her they were investigating the death of her husband. Almost immediately after the police left, Cincinelli and DiRubba began discussing their alibis, according to the FBI.

Soon after, an FBI agent posing as the hitman, sent DiRubba a picture purportedly showing the husband dead in his car. Cincinelli then told him to delete all of their pictures and messages from their phones so they wouldn't be found. She was arrested shortly after.

A mother of two, Cincinelli had been a member of the NYPD since 2007. She had her badge and gun taken away in 2017 after it was discovered that she was spending on-duty time at DiRubba's home.

The New York Post reported that Cincinelli wanted to kill her husband, Isaiah Carvalho, who recently filed for divorce. She also wanted to kill DiRubba's daughter because "she's getting in the way," according to the Post.