A Bronx sergeant who stole the heart of a stunning colleague and had a child with her was treated like a criminal by jealous fellow cops — who ‘investigated’ the identity of the baby-daddy like it was a criminal case, according to a lawsuit.
Sgt. Milton Valerio, 40, met Anajess Alvarez — who was the NYPD’s poster cop in a series of recruitment billboards — at the transit station house where the two worked near Yankee Stadium in the Bronx in 2019.
“I said ‘no’ to him a few times,” Alvarez, 28, told The Post with a grin. “Then we went out while with friends and we just hit it off.”
The couple decided to keep their relationship quiet because she was new and wanted to make her own way as a police officer.
“I wanted to make a name for myself,” she said. “I didn’t want it to be like ‘Oh, that’s Valerio’s girlfriend.’”
Around the same time the two were falling in love, Alvarez said her married boss, Lt. Christian Hernandez, “expressed interest” in her.”
“Despite her rejections, Hernandez continually asked her if she should be with him, even stating, ‘You’re so much better than my wife,’” according to a discrimination lawsuit Valerio filed in Manhattan Supreme Court last month.