{"id":71413,"date":"2026-04-10T17:55:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T22:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/10\/ex-nypd-sergeant-jailed-for-up-to-nine-years-over-mans-death-on-scooter\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T17:55:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T22:55:10","slug":"ex-nypd-sergeant-jailed-for-up-to-nine-years-over-mans-death-on-scooter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/10\/ex-nypd-sergeant-jailed-for-up-to-nine-years-over-mans-death-on-scooter\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-NYPD sergeant jailed for up to nine years over man\u2019s death on scooter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Erik Duran in 2023 threw cooler at fleeing suspect Eric Duprey, who then crashed his motorized scooter and died<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/new-york\">New York<\/a> police department sergeant has been sentenced to three to nine years in prison for tossing a picnic cooler full of ice and drinks at a fleeing suspect, who then crashed his motorized scooter and died.<\/p>\n<p>Erik Duran, 38, was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/06\/new-york-police-guilty-cooler-scooter\">convicted<\/a> of manslaughter in the 2023 death of 30-year-old Eric Duprey. The ex-sergeant said he was trying to protect other officers from the approaching scooter. He is the first former NYPD officer sentenced to prison for an on-duty death in at least two decades.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/10\/nypd-sergeant-sentenced-scooter-death\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Erik Duran in 2023 threw cooler at fleeing suspect Eric Duprey, who then crashed his motorized scooter and died Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email A former New York police department sergeant has been sentenced to three to nine years in prison for tossing a picnic cooler full of ice and drinks &#8230; <a title=\"Ex-NYPD sergeant jailed for up to nine years over man\u2019s death on scooter\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/10\/ex-nypd-sergeant-jailed-for-up-to-nine-years-over-mans-death-on-scooter\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Ex-NYPD sergeant jailed for up to nine years over man\u2019s death on scooter\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}