Bronx District Attorney Robert T. Johnson announced today that a veteran New York City Police Officer has pled guilty to four misdemeanor counts of forgery, petit larceny, criminal possession of stolen property and criminal possession of a forged instrument.

Gustavo Figueroa, who resigned from the New York City Police Department last week, admitted that he had stolen more than $600 from an elderly woman while responding to a call for assistance in November 2002.

Figueroa, 44, of New Windsor, New York, was sentenced to a conditional discharge, by Acting State Supreme Court Justice Steven Barrett, immediately after entering the guilty plea and making full restitution of $632.

The crimes occurred on November 2, 2002 when Officer Figueroa, while on duty and in uniform, responded to a call for assistance at the Sedgewick Avenue home of an elderly woman. The victim’s medical alert device had malfunctioned. Figueroa, who was assigned to the 50th Precinct at the time, admitted that he stole $557 in cash and three money orders worth a total value of $75. Figueroa said he made the money orders payable to himself and deposited them in his personal checking account.

The theft was discovered shortly after Figueroa left the victim’s home. The elderly woman noticed that an envelope containing the sequentially numbered money orders, the cash and her public benefit identification card was missing. During an investigation by the NYPD Internal Affairs Bureau and Bronx District Attorney’s Rackets Bureau, the missing money orders were traced to the defendant’s bank account.

The case was prosecuted by Assistant District Attorney Todd Sherman.