Fresh details have emerged in the case of a New York City Police Department officer who is accused of seeking a contract murder on her estranged husband.
Officer Valerie Cincinelli, 34, was arrested on Friday in an FBI sting after federal agents staged an elaborate ruse to convince her that the alleged murder-for-hire had been carried out.
The twisted saga dates back to February, when prosecutors say that mother-of-two Cincinelli approached her new boyfriend urging him to find a hitman who could off her estranged husband, Isaiah Carvalho Jr.
But instead of going forward with the plot, the boyfriend rushed to the FBI with the information and became a secret informant, according to charging documents reported by the New York Post.
Valerie Cincinelli (pictured left in 2017 with ex-husband Isiah Carvalho and her daughter), 34, is accused of asking her current boyfriend to hire an assassin to kill her ex-husband. She received a 'Cop of the month' award in July 2017 (shown above)
On February 18, prosecutors say that Cincinelli moved forward with the plot by withdrawing $7,000 from a TD Bank branch, giving the money to the boyfriend to buy five ounces of gold coins to be used to pay the purported hitman.
Cincinelli, who has her own children with Carvalho, also wanted the supposed hitman to kill her new boyfriend's own teen daughter because she was in the way of their new relationship, the court documents say.
The cop allegedly told her boyfriend tell the hitman to 'run her the f**k over' to make the girl's death appear to be a hit-and-run.
The boyfriend strung Cincinelli along as the FBI gathered information, telling her that he was in contact with a hitman and the plot was moving forward.
On Monday, the boyfriend told Cincinelli that the supposed hitman was stalking Carvalho at his workplace on Long Island, but the NYPD cop protested that the area was too upscale.
Instead, Cincinelli said he should be killed in 'the hood' or 'the ghetto' so 'it would not look suspicious,' court papers say.
Worried that two deaths close together would raise suspicion, Cincinelli advised her boyfriend 'to have the hitman kill [the teen] over the weekend and then wait a week or a month to kill' her husband, the documents said.
Ex-husband Isiah Carvalho Jr (above) posed as dead in a photo that federal agents sent to Cincinelli's boyfriend, which he used to convince her the hit had been carried out
The investigation came to a head on Friday morning, when a Suffolk County detective who was working with the feds came to Cincinelli's home and told her -
