The person accused of dumping his boyfriend’s decomposing physique into the trash outdoors their Brooklyn house constructing and head-butting a cop who later arrested him bizarrely claimed he was the officer’s boss, in accordance with prosecutors.
“What are you doing? I’m the captain of the police!” Christopher Moss yelled as he tussled with cops attempting to arrest him, prosecutors stated at his arraignment in Brooklyn Felony Courtroom late Monday.
He additionally tried to seize a gun from the NYPD detective he head-butted, prosecutors say.
Darrell Montgomery’s stays had been found about 9 a.m. Friday outdoors the couple’s constructing on E. twenty first St. close to Ditmas Ave. in Flatbush after residents complained of a foul odor.
Moss, 38, was nabbed two days later a couple of mile away after a tipster referred to as cops to report the suspect’s location.
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Employees discovered the physique in a trash bag inside a big blue plastic bin close to the constructing’s rubbish space on Friday morning. (Kerry Burke / New York Each day Information)
After his arrest, Moss informed cops he had lived with Montgomery, 33, for about 4 years and that the 2 of them smoked methamphetamines “on a constant foundation,” Brooklyn Assistant District Lawyer Tziyonah Langsam stated in the course of the suspect’s arraignment.
Moss is dealing with assault costs for combating with cops in addition to a cost of concealment of a corpse.
Sporting a scraggly beard, a dirty black Polo shirt and denims, Moss stated nothing as Decide Linda Wilson ordered him held on $20,000 bail. Concealment of a corpse isn’t a bail-eligible offense however the cost of assaulting an officer is.
Moss’ authorized support legal professional Robert Heilbronn informed Wilson his consumer didn’t really assault the cops who took him into custody.
“My consumer was assaulted,” Heilbronn claimed. “On this case, he didn’t assault the police.”
Arresting officers jumped out of a automobile and demanded Moss’ ID. When Moss refused “he was instantly punched in his left eye, which you’ll see, your honor — he has a black eye,” Heilbronn informed the decide.
Moss solely wrestled with cops as a result of the officers tackled him to the bottom, Heilbronn claimed.
Montgomery’s physique confirmed no apparent indicators of trauma. It’s believed he probably died from pure causes or a drug overdose.
Moss informed detectives he discovered Montgomery lifeless of their house.
“His physique was stiff,” Langsam stated in courtroom, recounting what Moss informed investigators. “(He) didn’t name the police. (As a substitute he) tried to position his physique within the rubbish.”
Surveillance video recovered by the constructing’s superintendent and shared with cops exhibits Moss dragging the physique out in a blue bin to the rubbish space, prosecutors stated.
Wilson ordered Moss to bear a psychological analysis.
Moss has by no means been arrested in New York state however he was twice convicted of housebreaking in Connecticut within the two years main as much as his transfer to Brooklyn, prosecutors stated.
The town Medical Examiner is conducting an post-mortem to find out precisely how Montgomery died. No foul play is suspected.
Montgomery’s physique appeared dismembered however was later decided to be full however very decomposed. It was not instantly clear when Montgomery died.
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Cops examine the scene on E. twenty first Avenue in Flatbush, Brooklyn. (Rebecca White/ New York Each day Information)
Neighbors informed the Each day Information that at about 6-foot-3, Moss towered over the slender 5-foot-4 Montgomery however the couple was all the time seen collectively within the constructing, with a 54-year-old tenant noting, “The place you noticed the tall one, you noticed the brief one.”
One 75-year-old neighbor recalled seeing Moss outdoors the constructing on Thursday, a day earlier than Montgomery’s physique was discovered. Moss was muttering to himself, the tenant recalled.
“He was entrance of the constructing, speaking to the solar,” she stated.
Montgomery’s household is reeling from his demise.
“He simply mainly put my brother in a fetal place and tied him up in a bag, in a bin, and threw him out and went on and didn’t come again,” Montgomery’s sister Shakeema informed The Information Monday. “You simply sit there and simply throw them away, like they’re rubbish, like they’re nothing. He was liked. My brother was liked.”
Shakeema stated neither she nor her mom ever met Moss and hadn’t spoken to her brother in over a month. She stated cops informed the household Moss ditched the physique when he might now not tolerate the odor.
“He simply determined to throw him out — and simply determined to only disperse of him prefer it was nothing,” she stated. “No person of their proper thoughts would simply sit there and let any individual simply rot away.”
