Man Tries to Bribe Officer after Accident

Police arrested a 27-year-old man for bribery after he offered his arresting officer $15,000 to release him.

Flores Gomez had been arrested for drunk driving after he drove his car into three parked vehicles in Washington Heights. He repeated his bribe offer to the arresting officer's supervisor at the 34th Precinct, Internal affairs then helped record Gomez repeating the offer, and then commissioned an acquaintance to deliver the money to the station.