One Officer’s Injuries Required A Year-Long Recovery
Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark today announced that a Bronx man has been
sentenced to 76 years in prison for shooting and seriously wounding two New York City police
officers during a violent spree in the Bronx.
District Attorney Clark said, “Responding NYPD Officers risked their lives to stop the
defendant, who left a trail of mayhem in the Bronx. Thankfully, they fully recovered and are
back on active duty, promoted to detectives. The defendant will now spend the majority of his
life behind bars for his vicious crimes.”
District Attorney Clark said the defendant, Jason Polanco, 26, of Decatur Avenue, was
sentenced today to a total of 76 years in prison followed by 5 years of post-release supervision
by Bronx Supreme Court Justice Steven Barrett. The defendant was found guilty by a jury on
March 30, 2018 of first and second-degree Assault, Criminal Possession of a Weapon and two
counts each of first and second-degree Robbery.
According to the investigation, on January 5, 2015, the defendant committed an armed
robbery at a grocery store in the area of East 180th Street. Then-Police Officers (now
Detectives) Andrew Dossi and Aliro Pellerano, and NYPD Sergeants Cesar Gomez and
Michael Pomerantz and NYPD Detective Edelman Santos, who were at the end of their shift,
heard the radio call about the robbery and rushed to the area. When Dossi and Pellerano
approached the location where the defendant was, he fired multiple times, striking Dossi in
his left arm and back. It took about a year for him to recover. Pellerano was struck in his arm
and side. After the shooting, the defendant carjacked a Chevrolet Camaro at gunpoint,
ultimately crashing and then fleeing on foot. The defendant was arrested on January 6, 2015.
District Attorney Clark thanked BXDA Detective Investigators Rita Bobe-Saleh, Brian
Santana and Rocco Galasso for their assistance in the case.
