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Alleged 'cannibal cop' Gilberto Valle denied bail

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)

Alleged cannibal cop Gilberto Valle's latest bid to get out on bail was quickly rejected by a panel of the Second U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Tuesday morning.

Lawyers for Valle, 28, who has been imprisoned since October on charges that he plotted on the Internet to abduct, rape and eat women, told a three-judge panel that all the evidence showed was that Valle was role-playing in a chat...

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