An NYPD sergeant who made greater than $200,000 final yr together with practically $55,000 in additional time assigned to a headquarters unit was arrested Saturday for allegedly shoplifting cough medication, based on officers, data and police sources.
Sgt. Rayna Madho, listed as a detective squad commander, was suspended with out pay at about 10 p.m. Saturday after her arrest in Nassau County, NYPD data present.
A Nassau County police spokesman stated Madho, 41, of Queens, was charged with two counts of petty larceny for 2 separate incidents on Dec. 7 and Nov. 24 on the Goal retailer on Dawn Freeway in Valley Stream, L.I. She was issued a desk look ticket and ordered to return to courtroom on Dec. 27, Nassau police stated.
Madho was accused within the Dec. 7 incident of stealing Zarbee’s Cough Syrup, which retails for $9.99 at Goal, and Ricola Cough Drops, promoting for $4.99 on the retailer, a regulation enforcement supply stated.
Madho is assigned to the SIU photographic squad, the place her job contains arranging photograph arrays for detectives who’re investigating circumstances and dealing with pictures for official identification playing cards at Police Headquarters. She joined the unit in March 25, 2022.
In complete, Madho made $201,625 in fiscal 2024, essentially the most lately obtainable determine, together with $126,211 in base pay, $54,939 for 555 hours of additional time and $20,475 in different pay, metropolis payroll data present.
Madho is the vice chairman of the influential Desi Society, an umbrella NYPD fraternal group that represents cops of South Asian heritage.
An NYPD spokesman declined remark besides to verify she was suspended with out pay.
She beforehand was assigned to the photograph unit, detective squads within the seventh and thirteenth Precincts and two instructions in Brooklyn, based on 50-a.org.
She has been a defendant in 5 civil lawsuits that settled for a complete of $161,000. In a kind of fits filed in 2019, video allegedly confirmed Madho dropping a tablet bottle in a automobile whereas her police associate arrested motorist Abdul Pullium again in 2015, Gothamist reported.
Pulliam’s lawyer alleged the video confirmed officers planting the bottle, Gothamist reported. The go well with settled for $7,500, a relative drop within the bucket in comparison with different police settlements.
Madho joined the power in January 2006. She was promoted to detective and sergeant in 2013 and to detective squad commander in 2021.
In a March social media submit for Girls’s Historical past Month, the Sergeants Benevolent Affiliation stated Madho was born in Trinidad, moved to the U.S. at age 12 and graduated from York School.
Initially Revealed: December 9, 2024 at 5:15 PM EST
