A top investigator in the Brooklyn DA’s office — who is also the half-sister of the man who died while running from a white mob during the Howard Beach race riots — was busted for shoplifting from a Nassau County Walmart this week, police said Thursday.
Det. Brenda Sandiford Crockwell, 33, used the self-checkout aisle at the Green Acres Mall store in Valley Stream Tuesday, but only scanned half her items before heading to the parking lot, a source said.
“The video is damaging,” the source said. “There’s no way she did it by accident.”
Crockwell and two other relatives were all given jobs by then-Brooklyn DA Charles Hynes after Michael Griffith, 23, who is black, was fatally chased into traffic by four white teenagers in the Howard Beach section of Queens in 1986.
Griffith’s brother, Chris, was fired earlier this year by incoming DA Ken Thompson; Griffith’s mother, Jean Griffith Sandiford, continues to work in the DA’s community affairs office.
‘This is an example of how politically corrupt the office was under Hynes,” the source said of the Griffith relative hirings. “They were all terrible at their jobs,” the source added.
Crockwell, who was hired in 2004, and makes $ 72,000 a year, was charged with a single count of petit larceny, and must show up at First District Court in Hempstead on Nov. 20, according to a spokeswoman for Nassau police.
She has been suspended without pay pending the case’s outcome, a spokeswoman for the Brooklyn DA’s office said.
A spokesman for Hynes declined to comment.
Additional reporting by Laura Italiano
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