Mieles v. Safir

—Determination of respondent Police Commissioner, dated October 16, 1998, dismissing petitioner from his position as a police officer, unanimously confirmed, the petition denied and the proceeding brought pursuant to CPLR article 78 (transferred to this Court by order of the Supreme Court, New York County [Barbara Kapnick, J.], entered May 12, 1999) dismissed, without costs.

Substantial evidence supports respondent’s findings that petitioner, inter alia, used false pretenses to trick the owner of a broken-down vehicle into giving him the title thereto, removed the vehicle from the street and…