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Former NY Cop Commits Suicide During Traffic Stop

Former NY Cop Commits Suicide During Traffic Stop
Chuck Muth
March 9, 2017

NYPD officers stand guard at the east side before Macy’s 4th of July Fireworks Independence Day celebrations in New York July 4, 2016. (Courtesy: Eduardo Munoz, Reuters)

(Amber Randall, The Daily Caller News Foundation) – A former New York Police Department officer killed himself after the FBI approached him during a traffic stop Wednesday.

Gerard Benderoth, also a bodybuilder, shot himself in the head when the FBI and state agents came up to arrest him, reports the New York Daily News.

“While conducting a law enforcement vehicle stop this morning, FBI Agents and task force officers approached a man who was the only occupant of a stopped vehicle,” the FBI said in a written statement. “During the approach, the man drew a handgun and shot himself. He died of the self-inflicted wound.”

Police were investigating Benderoth for possible connections he had to Nicholas Tartaglione, a former New York cop accused of killing four men.

Tartaglione allegedly killed the men during a bad cocaine deal and then buried them. U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara charged Tartaglione with four murder charges and a charge for drug conspiracy.

It is not clear if Benderoth played a role in the four homicides and drug runs.

“If this guy put a bullet in his head rather than go and talk to them, he must have been in deep,” a law enforcement source said to the New York Post.

 

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