SCHENECTADY Officer pleads guilty, will resign Hunter takes deal, gets probation on misdemeanors BY STEVEN COOK Gazette Reporter
City Police Officer Kyle Hunter, who was already facing termination over several allegations, headed off that possibility Friday morning as he pleaded guilty to two misdemeanors and agreed to resign from the force. Hunter appeared in Schenectady County Court before Judge Karen Drago and accepted the prosecution’s offer that included no jail time but required his resignation from the department. Hunter pleaded guilty to two counts of second-degree criminal contempt, a misdemeanor. There will also be a full order of protection for the victim in place for three years. He also faces up to three years of probation. The plea came after a similar offer was rejected in January. Hunter’s attorney, Michael Horan said Friday that after a series of discussions, Hunter thought about the offer and decided to accept it. Hunter admitted to sending text messages to his ex-girlfriend in May and June, violating an order of protection. Those text messages, Horan said, were returning text messages sent by the woman. “He was charged with felonies, and while I think that would have been difficult for them to prove, on the other hand, he was charged with returning text messages. There are phone records and they would have been difficult to deal with.” Prosecutor Christina Tremante-Pelham responded, saying that was the first she had heard of the woman initiating the text messages. Tremante-Pelham said there is no evidence she did so. “Regardless of the reason,” Tremante-Pelham said, “he contacted her and his order was to have no contact with her whatsoever. He violated that.” Hunter’s resignation will be made official once the proper paperwork is drawn up. The deadline is March 15, but he is expected to resign sooner. Drago ordered a quick end to Hunter’s time as a police officer. As soon as the papers are ready, Drago told Hunter, “You need to get down there and sign those papers immediately. That is my order.” City police officials said Friday they expected that to be complete by this coming week. Hunter has been suspended with and without pay since his initial March 2009 arrest. Since then, he has been paid at least $40,000 to sit at home, city records show. ..................>>>>.......................>>>>.........................http://www.dailygazette.net/De.....r00902&AppName=1
He will probably get a job in administration is Bucks County, PA or somewhere now. Maybe assistant chief, or commissioner of public safety. Or better yet, maybe he can be the new State Police Superintendent in charge of doing what the dem governor wants.
"While Foreign Terrorists were plotting to murder and maim using homemade bombs in Boston, Democrap officials in Washington DC, Albany and here were busy watching ME and other law abiding American Citizens who are gun owners and taxpayers, in an effort to blame the nation's lack of security on US so that they could have a political scapegoat."
Too bad he wasn't just caught driving while drunk, shutting cop car cameras off and left the scene of an accident, huh?
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
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