It was a booze cruiser.
An NYPD sergeant in Internal Affairs claims he found a half-empty bottle of liquor in his captain’s car, but that when he reported it to his bosses it became last call for his cop career.
Michelangelo Hidalgo, 42, alleges in a new lawsuit that in July 2023, his boss, Capt. Genienne King, asked him to take her unmarked department vehicle to the car wash.
While he and another sergeant drove there, they heard clinking coming from the back seat and looked to find “bottles hitting each other” and “rolling around,” according to the suit.
On the floor was a bottle of Angostura bitters, an 89-proof alcohol that is a key ingredient in Old Fashioned and Manhattan cocktails.
“It was open and already started,” Hidalgo, who joined the NYPD in 2005, told The Post. “There was a strong smell of liquor.”