Detective testifies he was ordered to scuttle arrest
Photo credit: Howard Schnapp | Former Nassau Deputy Police Commissioner William Flanagan leaves the Nassau County Court after hearing testimony in his misconduct trial in Mineola. (Jan. 24, 2013)
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Police Det. Bruce Coffey said that when he visited John F. Kennedy High School in Bellmore four years ago, his orders were to get the principal to sign a paper saying she didn't want to prosecute the son of a police benefactor who had stolen electronic equipment from the school.
But when he got there, he didn't have the heart to press her, he told a Nassau jury on Friday.
"She was very...
