In a startling revelation, former New York State Trooper Thomas Mascia was found to have fabricated an alleged shooting ...

Mascia, who joined the state police in 2019, had been suspended without pay since November when the investigation began. He ...

Thomas Mascia shot himself at Hempstead Lake State Park then stashed the gun, drove to the highway and called for help, prosecutors said Monday. He also allegedly planted shell casings at the scene.

A New York State trooper who claimed he was shot on a Long Island highway by a random gunman falsified his story, prosecutors have claimed. Thomas Mascia, 27, set off a multistate manhunt on ...

NEW YORK (AP) — A former New York state trooper has been arrested and charged after prosecutors say he shot himself in the leg and then falsely claimed he was wounded by an unknown gunman on a Long ...

In October 2024, then New York State Trooper Thomas Mascia allegedly staged a crime that ... When he was released from the hospital, Mascia was celebrated by Long Island law enforcement for surviving ...

Claim by former Trooper Thomas J. Mascia set off an intensive manhunt for a suspect he described as a dark-skinned male driving a black Dodge Charger ...

Thomas Mascia shot himself at Hempstead Lake State Park then stashed the gun, drove to the highway and called for help, prosecutors said Monday. He also allegedly planted shell casings at the scene.