An ex-state corrections officer who posed as a cop to “prey” on women he pulled over on Long Island roadways pleaded guilty to criminal-impersonation charges Tuesday, authorities said.
David Olivari, 38, of Coram was nabbed in a sting in February and charged with pulling over a female motorist earlier in the year and trying to force her to provide nude photos of herself, the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office said.
On Tuesday, Olivari pleaded guilty to first-degree criminal-impersonation charges.
“This defendant repeatedly endangered Suffolk County motorists by conducting traffic stops for which he had neither authority nor training,” Suffolk DA Raymond Tierney said in a statement.
“The message here is that no one is above the law, including a corrections officer who acted so egregiously outside of his official duties in attempting to prey upon otherwise unsuspecting female motorists.”
Olivari used his gray 2007 Toyota Prius, which was equipped with dashboard flashing lights, to pull over at least two women driving alone on Long Island parkways while claiming he was a police officer.
On Jan. 22, prosecutors said, the then-corrections officer pulled over one woman on a Long Island Expressway service road around 3 a.m. and took her cell phone.
David Olivari, a former state corrections officer, pleaded guilty to impersonating a police officer to “prey” on woman in Long Island.
Olivari then targeted another woman the next night on Shenandoah Boulevard in Nesconset, authorities said.
“A similar complaint was made by [the] second woman,” Suffolk police said at the time of Olivari’s arrest.
Olivari later called the first woman trying to get her to send him nude photos and arranged to meet her on Veterans Memorial Highway in Commack, where cops were waiting.
He was released without bail after pleading guilty and is due to be sentenced next year, facing anywhere from parole to up to four years behind bars.
