New York Daily News

Missing ma’s bloody clothes in trash: report

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A former NYPD detective in the Crime Stoppers unit was sentenced to one year and one day in prison Wednesday for what a judge called a poorly executed “bank fraud crime spree.”

Former Detective Michael Bonanno cried as he apologized for the scam that destroyed his nearly 20-year career.

Between November 2016 and March 2017, Bonanno and an old acquaintan­ce, Domenic Aiello, stole and attempted to steal as much as $1.5 million using New Yorkers’ stolen checks and bank account numbers. The crooked cop tried to use the money to pay his mortgage and credit card bills. Judge Paul Gardephe noted that Bonanno, 45, even drove Aiello around as he stole checks from mailboxes.

“As a longtime police officer and detective, Mr. Bonanno knew better than most that what he was engaged in was illegal,” Gardephe said in Manhattan Federal Court.

“He betrayed the New York City Police Department and the citizens of New York.” The actual loss from the scheme was only $15,000 because banks noticed the suspicious transactio­ns. A source told the Daily News Aiello would have testified against Bonanno (photo) if the case had gone to trial.

What motivated Bonanno to start committing crimes with Aiello — who he barely spoke to in the last 20 years — after they ran into each other at the Staten Island Mall remains a mystery, the judge said.

“I offer no excuse,” said Bonanno, who used to work in the unit dedicated to collecting and investigat­ing anonymous tips from the community. “I am ashamed of what I did.” The shirt that police believe missing Connecticu­t mom Jennifer Farber Dulos was wearing the day she vanished was found stained with her blood in a bag allegedly dumped by her estranged husband, according to a report.

The Vineyard Vines T-shirt was recovered along with one of her bras, mops and some sponges also stained with blood in an area of Hartford some 75 miles from her New Canaan home, sources told the Hartford Courant.

The items were in a black contractor bag cops found during a search of the Hartford street where husband Fotis Dulos, 51, was allegedly caught on camera ditching items the night of his wife’s May 24 disappeara­nce.

Dulos and girlfriend Michelle Troconis, 44, have been charged with evidence tampering and hindering prosecutio­n. They have both pleaded guilty and are out on bail.

Jennifer, 50, was last seen dropping her kids off at school between 8 and 8:30 a.m. on May 24.

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