Gilberto Valle, an NYPD officer faces federal kidnapping conspiracy charges in a plot to abduct, cook and "eat body parts" of at least 100 women, according to reports.
Gilberto Valle of Forest Hills, Queens, was charged with one count of conspiracy to commit kidnapping, according to a federal criminal complaint, as well was using the National Crime Information Center database to access unauthorized data, according to the Associated Press.
The U.S. Attorney's office said Valle conspired with multiple, unnamed people "to kidnap, rape, torture, kill, cook and cannibalize a number of women."
"Gilberto Valle's alleged plans to kidnap women so that they could be raped, tortured, killed, cooked and cannibalized shocks the conscience," Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said in a prepared statement. "This case is all the more disturbing when you consider Valle's position as a New York City police officer and his sworn duty to serve and protect."
Gilberto Valle, 28 and married, sent numerous emails and other Internet communications about the ghoulish torture and cannibalism scheme, according to a criminal complaint. There was no information that any women harmed.
"I was thinking of tying her body onto some kind of apparatus ... cook her over low heat, keep her alive as long as possible," Valle allegedly wrote in one online exchange in July, the complaint says.
The officer was to appear later Thursday in federal court in Manhattan to face kidnapping charges. The name of his attorney was not immediately available.
"The allegations in the complaint really need no description from us," said Mary E. Galligan, acting head of the FBI's New York office. "They speak for themselves. It would be an understatement merely to say Valle's own words and actions were shocking."
