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Accused 'cannibal cop' is moved to Brooklyn

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)

The government has diagnosed accused "cannibal cop" Gilberto Valle with depression and moved him to a federal lockup in Brooklyn because he complained about being assigned a member of the Latin Kings gang as a bunkmate, a judge was told yesterday.

Federal defender Julia Gatto told U.S. District Judge Paul Gardephe that the unexpected move from Manhattan's Metropolitan Correctional Center late...

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