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Accused 'cannibal' cop denied home confinement

Gilberto Valle, a six-year veteran of the New

Photo credit: Handout | Gilberto Valle, a six-year veteran of the New York City Police Department, was arrested on charges that he kept files on women on his computer, discussed with a co-conspirator abducting a woman for $5,000 and mused about putting other women in his oven and cooking them. (2012)

Calling his behavior "depraved, bizarre, aberrational and as of now, unexplained," a federal judge Tuesday declined to release to home confinement a suspended NYPD officer accused of conspiring to kidnap, torture and cook women.

Gilberto Valle, 28, of Forest Hills, remained silent at his bail hearing in front of Judge Paul Gardephe at federal court in Manhattan.

Valle's public defender,...

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