NYPD Tried To Silence Sexual Harassment Claims, BK Detective Says

SUNSET PARK, BROOKLYN — A detective who claims his female boss stuffed her underwear into his mouth is now saying the NYPD is trying to silence the complaints by questioning his mental state. Officers came to Detective Victor Falcon's home Friday and tried to commit him to a psychiatric ward, the Daily News reported.

Falcon, a detective with the 72nd precinct in Sunset Park, had filed a complaint in October against Sgt. Ann Marie Guerra, who he said rubbed her underwear in his face and had harassed him almost daily for years. Guerra has been transferred to Manhattan while the claims are investigated.

The 35-year-old detective was able to avoid being sent to the psychiatric ward on Friday by instead admitting himself to NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn for chest pains. But he claims the visit was a stunt to silence his claims against Guerra.

“They want to send me to a psychiatric facility for 30 days,” Falcon, 35, told the Daily News. “This is because of the complaints I made. They do this to discredit cops.”

Falcon was cleared and discharged after a psychiatric evaluation at the hospital, the Daily News said. He was stripped of his badge and gun.

Sources with the NYPD told The New York Post that the concerns about Falcon's mental health began when he started exhibiting "bizarre behavior" in the precinct.

In the last few weeks Falcon started bringing a GoPro to work and videotaping everyone in the stationhouse, which is against the department's policy, the source said.

Falcon also began wearing a backpack with five guns inside and would laugh to himself when nobody was talking to him.

Michael Palladino with the Detectives Endowment Association said his fellow officers are genuinely concerned for him and his safety.

“We are not sure exactly what’s troubling him but, his fellow detectives in the 72 Squad are genuinely concerned about his safety and theirs so his weapons have been removed until he can be psychologically evaluated," Palladino told the Post.

But Falcon's attorney, Seamus Barrett, maintains that the visit to his house was an attempt to silence him.

“It’s painfully obvious what’s happening he’s been targeted for the complaints he made about the sexual harassment,” Barrett told the Daily News. “It’s a complete farce. He’s a marked man now.”

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