• Cop accused of spending nights at mistress's home while on duty

    By NBC News staff

    A former Nassau County, N.Y., cop who is accused of spending more than 50 nights in his mistress's bed when he was supposed to be on patrol was arrested Friday, the New York Post reported.


    According to the newspaper, the charges against Michael Tedesco, 43, include 80 counts of official misconduct, 25 counts of falsifying business records, and four counts of tampering with business records.

    “Ultimately, not every lapse in judgment amounts to a crime,” Tedesco's lawyer, Aida Leisenring, told the Post.

    Tedesco, who is married with two children and an 18-year police veteran, retired from the force this past spring after his trysts became public. He is collecting a full state pension, the Post reported.

    According to the New York Daily News, a police internal affairs investigation found that Tedesco visited the Massapequa home of his mistress, Tara Obenauer, at least 57 times while he was supposed to be on duty.

    Obenauer, a 42-year-old divorcee, told the Post earlier this year that Tedesco would park his police car outside her home and spend nights there having sex, watching TV or sleeping. His gun belt would sometimes be left within the reach of Obenauer's kids, the Post reported.

    The affair, which according to the Post report began in the summer of 2011, became public when one of Obenauer's neighbors complained to police about Tedesco's frequent visits.

    Obenauer has filed a legal notice saying she plans to sue Nassau County for $10 million over its failure to supervise Tedesco while on duty, the Post reported. She claimed she lives in fear of retaliation and has suffered “severe emotional and psychological damages,” according to the Daily News.

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  • Suspect arrested in killing of cop, motorist in NYC

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    By Jonathan Dienst, Shimon Prokupecz and Greg Cergo, NBCNewYork.com

    Updated at 7 p.m. ET: NEW YORK -- The suspect in the deadly shooting of a Nassau County police officer during a traffic stop Tuesday has been captured in Queens, law enforcement sources said.

    Darrell Fuller, 33, was located along 175th Street and 111th Avenue and appeared to have two gunshot wounds, sources said.

    Police had been hunting Fuller after he allegedly shot the officer during a traffic stop before gunning down a motorist as he tried to get away along the border of Queens and Long Island Tuesday.

    Authorities said Officer Arthur Lopez, 29, and another Nassau officer were heading north on Northern Boulevard when they saw a vehicle leave the scene of an accident near the Queens border.

    They pulled over the suspect, who was driving a Honda, and he began firing at them after a short conversation, killing Lopez, law enforcement officials said. Lopez was not wearing a bulletproof vest; the other officer was not shot.

    The suspect took off, ditching the car before carjacking a Toyota and shooting its driver in the head.

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    That Toyota was later found abandoned. Police have identified a possible suspect, Darrell Fuller, 33, by tracing the registration on the Honda, sources tell NBC 4 New York.

    A man who said he witnessed the shooting while he was stopped at a gas station along the highway said it happened during what looked like a routine traffic stop.

    "The officer's walking up to the car. They just pulled out and shot," said Paul Walcott, a music producer from Bayside, Queens. "He went right down. He got hit point blank. He went straight down."

    Nearby schools were put on lockdown while police searched for the suspect, Department of Education officials said. Residents were also told to stay in their homes while police went from house to house.

    It was the second time in the past week that a Nassau County officer has died in the line of duty. Highway patrolman Joseph Olivieri was killed Thursday while responding to a traffic accident caused by an alleged drunk driver.

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    Lopez was an eight-year veteran of the department and was a volunteer firefighter on Long Island.

    Nassau County PBA President James Carter described him as "full of life, full of energy, a great cop and a great friend."

    An arrest warrant was issued for Fuller, who has two prior arrests: one in October 2004 for attempted murder and another in March 2010 for possession of drugs, according to law enforcement sources.

    He was sentenced to five years in prison after pleading guilty to the attempted murder charge and is currently on parole, sources said.