Atkins is being held at the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office Main Detention Center on a second-degree felony charge of written or electronic threats to kill, do bodily injury, or conduct a mass ...

A former New York state trooper has been arrested and charged after prosecutors say he shot himself in the leg and then falsely claimed he was wounded by an unknown gunman on a Long Island highway ...

A former New York state trooper was arrested and charged after he allegedly shot himself in the leg and falsely reported that he was wounded by an unknown gunman. Thomas Mascia, 27, shot himself ...

Thomas Mascia, a New York State Police Trooper, claimed in October that he had been attacked by a gunman, who shot him in the leg and fled. The incident sparked a huge manhunt for a shooter who ...

NEW YORK -- A New York State Police trooper who claimed he was shot on the job last year on Long Island is now facing charges in the case. Trooper Thomas Mascia was charged Monday with tampering ...

NY state trooper in alleged ‘shot-for-sympathy' case resigns, pleads not guilty Court documents indicate the troopers’ actions “were for the benefit of gaining attention or sympathy for ...

Thomas Mascia is accused of staging the shooting for "attention or sympathy." A New York state trooper who claimed to have been shot in the line of duty in October is now facing criminal charges ...

Mascia scattered casings around and then shot himself in the leg in a bid ... The senior Mr. Mascia, a former New York City police officer, is a felon who is not allowed to carry a gun, according ...

NEW YORK (AP) — A former New York state trooper has been arrested and charged after prosecutors say he shot himself in the leg and then falsely claimed he was wounded by an unknown gunman on a ...

NEW YORK (AP) — A former New York state trooper has been arrested and charged after prosecutors say he shot himself in the leg and then falsely claimed he was wounded by an unknown gunman on a ...