NY pizza-payoff cop admits faking his own shooting

[June 10, 2010]  GOWANDA, N.Y. (AP) -- A New York police officer who pleaded guilty to official misconduct for taking three pizzas as payment for covering up a woman's traffic ticket now admits he faked his own shooting.

Erie County District Attorney Frank Sedita says Jason Miller, a former part-time officer in the western New York village of Gowanda (goh-WAHN'-duh), confessed that he hung his bulletproof vest on a tree and shot it two years ago.

The admission was part of last month's plea deal in the pizza case. Miller admitted he arrested a driver for a suspended license in June 2009 and accepted the pizzas to drop the ticket.

Miller's attorney, Daniel Henry, declined to comment Tuesday.

Miller faces up to a year in jail. He resigned in September.

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