Man Gets 20 Days in Toy Banana Flashing
STAMFORD, Conn. - A former Stamford police officer has been sentenced to 20 days in jail for lewd conduct involving a toy banana. Arthur Bertana, 63, was ordered to serve a 4 1/2 year prison term suspended after 20 days and one year of probation.
Bertana, who had been on probation for lewd conduct in Stamford more than four years ago, was arrested in March after police said he placed a toy banana in his pants and flashed people on a main Greenwich Ave.
Police said he would place a shopping bag in front of his pants, exposing a bulge to women in a sexually offensive manner.
"It was a yellow, plush, child's toy banana," Sgt. Roger Petrone Jr. said at the time of Bertana's arrest. "It had a smiley face on it."
Information from: Greenwich Time, http://www.greenwichtimeonline.com
I misread his sentence as 20 years and went on a bit of a rant about the inappropriate sentencing, but I now see it's 4 1/2 years with 20 days served. Still, that's just silly.
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