Cops search for man who threatened NYC Sheriff Anthony Miranda: NYPD

Cops are looking for a 41-year-old antheral with a flimsy nexus to Lehman College who sent administrators astatine the Bronx schoolhouse a haunting email that threatened New York City Sheriff Anthony Miranda, constabulary said Saturday.

Detectives released an representation of Dimitry Rappoport and are asking for the public’s assistance successful locating him.

Rappoport is accused of sending an email to Lehman College officials that threatened to harm Sheriff Miranda, a constabulary root said. More details of the threat’s contented were not instantly disclosed.

Lehman College administrators received the email connected Oct. 29, cops said. It was 1 of respective emails Rappoport had sent to the assemblage since attending a fewer seminars determination a twelvemonth earlier.

Mayor Adams tapped Miranda to instrumentality implicit the metropolis sheriff’s bureau successful May 2022. Before becoming metropolis sheriff, Miranda was an NYPD sergeant, manager of information for the city’s Administration for Children’s Services and longtime caput of the National Latino Officers Association.

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New York City Sheriff Anthony Miranda. (Angus Mordant for New York Daily News)

Miranda’s lawman sheriffs are the extremity of the spear successful the city’s ongoing combat against amerciable cannabis shops.

The city’s Department of Investigation is looking into whether the metropolis sheriff’s bureau has been improperly seizing currency from the unlicensed cookware shops they’ve raided during Operation Padlock to Protect, a large crackdown connected the amerciable shops that the sheriff’s bureau is conducting with the NYPD.

Sheriff Miranda said helium had been told of the menace and was taking precautions.

“We are moving with the NYPD and the sheriff’s bureau to code immoderate information concerns for myself and my family,” Miranda told the Daily News Saturday. “Every menace has to beryllium taken earnestly and evaluated for an due response.

“The enactment of the sheriff’s bureau volition proceed to determination forward,” helium said.

An email requesting remark from City Hall and the city’s Department of Finance, which oversees metropolis sheriffs, was not instantly returned Saturday.

Cops are asking anyone with accusation that could assistance pb to Rappoport’s apprehension to telephone Crime Stoppers astatine (800) 577-TIPS. All calls volition beryllium kept confidential.