Officer Ymmacula Pierre, a "three-year-veteran" of the NYPD, is facing numerous charges stemming from the use of a credit card she allegedly stole from the apartment of a
deceased man she discovered while on duty.
The accused officer, 30-year-old Ymmacula Pierre, was on the job when she went to an apartment building on East 14th Street in Union Square last July to conduct a wellness check requested by the tenant's family, prosecutors said.
It turned out the man who lived there, 65-year-old Ken Sanden, had passed away. After notifying the man's family, Pierre obtained his credit card information and then allegedly bought a $3,200 diamond ring from Zales two days later.
While Pierre has pleaded not guilty to the charges, the evidence against her
seems pretty strong:
Investigators found the purchase from beyond the grave had been made from a computer in Queens owned by Pierre’s boyfriend, whose address she’d listed as her emergency contact, prosecutors said.
The same computer was used to access the dead man’s email, the DA’s office said.
The address the ring was supposed to be sent to was one Pierre had used a reference on her NYPD application, prosecutors said.
When Officer Pierre discovered Mr. Sanden she used his Samsung Galaxy phone to contact his niece with the sad news. Prosecutors note that that phone is missing as well.