The NYPD rookie filmed offering her lieutenant a raunchy lap dance at their Bronx precinct holiday get together has been identified — and she describes herself as a “highly inspired and determined personal.”
Vera Mekuli, 26, who only joined the pressure in February, was caught on camera grinding on top of 44th Precinct Lt. Nick McGarry in the Yonkers bar final Thursday.
Prior to becoming a member of the NYPD ranks, Mekuli worked as a true estate agent in the Big Apple, the Daily Mail described.
On her now-deleted LinkedIn profile, Mekuli described herself as a “highly enthusiastic and determined particular person.”
“I are likely to go just after what I want and I don’t end until finally I get it. If I am to are unsuccessful. I decide on myself up and attempt yet again,” her LinkedIn bio explained.
“Success does not arrive with no failure. I have realized at a really younger age that good results/wealth/alternatives isn’t just offered or handed to you, it is attained acquired by challenging perform and time you place in.
“I have tackled every single undertaking, each and every obstacle, that arrived prior to me. I like helping many others and I usually put other folks in advance of myself.”
Mekuli is a Bronx native who attended the John Jay College or university of Prison Justice on the Higher West Side.
She couldn’t be instantly achieved in the wake of the raunchy video clip staying manufactured general public.
But her father, John Mekuli, explained to The Put up on Monday that she was “frustrated” about the ordeal.
“She told me, ‘Daddy, I make some slip-up,’” he explained. “‘I’m incredibly ashamed about what I did. I humiliated you and my relatives.’”
“She cried and cried,” her father ongoing. “She is younger. … He is married, the lieutenant. He should really know superior. I am heading to sue them.”
McGarry was quickly booted to the Transit Bureau as higher-ups launched an investigation into the steamy online video, resources instructed The Publish.
The rookie cop isn’t experiencing any disciplinary charges.
A guy at a Bronx address listed for the Mekulis slammed the door on a reporter Wednesday.
Added reporting by Georgett Roberts