NY cop guilty of cannibalism plot


March 13, 2013 at 12:00a.m.

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NEW YORK

A federal jury in Manhattan on Tuesday convicted police officer Gilberto Valle of conspiracy to kidnap and eat women, stunning Valle, his family and a defense team that relentlessly argued he had engaged only in crude online role-playing fantasies.

Six-year New York Police Department veteran Valle, 28, was charged with plotting in Internet chats with three men he met on a kinky-sex website to abduct, abuse and cannibalize women he knew and with misusing a police database. He will face up to life in prison at his sentencing June 19. He was fired by the police department Tuesday.

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