Ex-NYPD cop who killed husband in boozed-up crash pleads guilty; will get probation

A erstwhile NYPD serviceman who killed her hubby successful a high-speed, booze-fueled clang successful upstate New York has pleaded blameworthy to criminally negligent homicide charges, but isn’t expected to look immoderate jailhouse time, officials said Tuesday.

According to a plea woody hammered retired with the New York Attorney General’s Office, Bernadine Ramtahal Thomas is expected to get 5 years probation for the 2023 clang erstwhile she is sentenced successful May, the AG confirmed.

Ramtahal Thomas, 36, was heading northbound connected the Palisades Interstate Parkway successful Rockland County astatine speeds of up to 109 mph connected Feb. 26, 2023, erstwhile her conveyance veered disconnected the roadworthy and slammed into a tree.

Her husband, Chevy Thomas, besides 36, was successful the rider spot and died astatine the scene. The off-duty serviceman was taken to an country infirmary successful captious condition, but she yet recovered.

Investigators determined that the officer’s humor intoxicant contented was 0.10 — conscionable supra the ineligible bounds — erstwhile she collided with the tree.

The mates lived successful Maybrook, successful Orange County, N.Y. Thomas joined the NYPD successful 2016 and was assigned to the NYPD’s Bronx Transportation Bureau.

After the crash, she was assigned to the Bronx Criminal Court Section earlier leaving the section successful January.

Thomas pleaded blameworthy to criminally negligent homicide connected Monday and volition stay retired connected bail until her sentencing connected May 7, officials said.

Her attorney, Michael Martinez, declined to remark erstwhile reached Tuesday.