A FDNY Paramedic pleaded guilty to felony charges after he was caught stealing from a city investigator posing as a patient during an undercover “integrity test,” the city’s Investigation Department announced on Friday.
Luis A Carrillo Jr, 44, was charged last August with fourth-degree grand larceny, petit larceny and official misconduct after the stabbing.
Carrillo’s plea will allow him to avoid both prison and a conviction in exchange for completing a substance abuse program, resigning from the FDNY where his annual salary was $59,534 and renouncing his EMT certification. Failure to comply with these conditions will result in him being sentenced to 364 days in prison.
“This defendant violated the trust of EMTs, who provide critical services every day to New Yorkers in dire need,” said DOI Commissioner Jocelyn E. Strauber. “As a result of his admission, he will lose his EMT certification and his job with the FDNY, a serious penalty and an important step in taking responsibility for his criminal behavior.”
The DOI arranged for Carrillo to pick up his investigator, who posed as a sick — and well-heeled — patient, after allegations of theft were previously made against Carrillo, according to an agency spokeswoman.
When Carrillo picked up the “patient” on Roosevelt Ave. in Queens on August 23, the undercover agent carried $1,100 in marked bills in his wallet. He had only $410 when the ambulance dropped him off at Elmhurst Hospital, according to the DOI spokeswoman.
A team of DOI investigators overseeing the operation stopped Carrillo’s ambulance after it left the hospital, and investigators recovered $600 of the marked bills from the paramedic’s pocket, but $90 of the marked bills were never recovered, the DOI spokeswoman said.
Carrillo, who joined the FDNY as a paramedic in October 2012, was suspended after he was charged with the crime in August 2023.
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