Officials say holdup suspect framed by ex

A Far Rockaway woman accused of posing as a police officer and robbing people during phony traffic stops was herself a victim of an elaborate frame job by her ex-boyfriend, prosecutors said Friday.

Prosecutors released Seemona Sumasar, 35, from jail Friday after two of three people who had claimed she robbed them admitted that they had made their stories up after Sumasar's former boyfriend, Jerry Ramrattan, paid them to do so, prosecutors said.

Sumasar's defense lawyer said Ramrattan came up with the plot to undermine Sumasar's credibility, just months before he was set to go to trial in Queens on charges that he raped her at gunpoint last year.

Prosecutors said they plan to formally drop the charges against Sumasar next week.

Sumasar's Mineola attorney, Anthony Grandinette, said his client, who has been in jail for about six months, would not be available for interviews Friday.

"As joyful as her reunion with family and friends has been, the harsh reality is that her life has been totally devastated," Grandinette said.

Ramrattan, 38, of East Elmhurst, pleaded not guilty Friday afternoon to two counts of second-degree perjury, two counts of falsifying business records, two counts of offering a false instrument for filing, two counts of falsely reporting an incident and two counts of fifth-degree conspiracy. Judge Terence Murphy ordered him held on $200,000 bond or $100,000 cash. He is due back in court Dec. 7. The rape case against him is pending.

Ramrattan's lawyer, James Kilduff of Brooklyn, said his client denies that he has any connection to the false witnesses in the case, or that he played any part in any false allegations. "There is no credible evidence to demonstrate that my client has anything to do with this," he said.

Grandinette and prosecutors said two people, Luz Johnson and Terrell Lovell, confessed to police that they had filed fictitious police reports. They picked Sumasar out of a lineup, and testified falsely before a grand jury, Grandinette and prosecutors said.

Both Johnson, 37, of Virginia, and Lovell, 29, of Brooklyn, have been charged with perjury and filing false reports. They pleaded not guilty Thursday and were held on $100,000 bond or $50,000 cash.

A third person, Rajive Mohanlal, falsely reported that Sumasar had robbed him on the street in Queens in September 2009, authorities said. Details of that case were not immediately available.

Sumasar was arrested in May.