Thomas Mascia, 27, of West Hempstead, was sentenced to six months in jail and five years of probation on Wednesday, Oct. 22, in Nassau County Court. It followed his guilty pleas to falsely reporting ...

A former New York state trooper who shot himself and triggered a massive multi-state manhunt will now spend time behind bars. Thomas Mascia, 27, of West Hempstead, was sentenced to six months in jail ...

Former New York State trooper Thomas Mascia, of West Hempstead, was sentenced to six months in prison and five years probation as part of a plea deal after he faked his own shooting last year and lied ...

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 Island highway ...

A former New York state trooper who admitted staging a fake crime scene, shooting himself in the leg and saying someone else did it -- part of what prosecutors say was an effort to garner sympathy -- ...

The trooper first said he had been shot in the leg by a "Black or dark-skinned male" in a balaclava, before a lengthy investigation discovered how he "wasted hundreds of hours of law enforcement ...