The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office on Tuesday secured a rare protective order barring gun ownership for an employee of the city comptroller’s office alleging he made threats to co-workers — including words warning of violence at an upcoming holiday party.
The temporary extreme risk protection order under New York’s “red flag law” is just the third obtained by the Manhattan district attorney’s office since the law went into effect in 2019, according to a spokesperson for Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg.
Prosecutors filed the request in the case of Seson Adams, a community coordinator in the office of the city comptroller, currently Brad Lander, according to a spokesperson for the agency.
Their petition to Manhattan state Supreme Court, relying on a sworn affidavit from an NYPD detective assigned to protect public officials, cited an August 2020 domestic violence case still pending in Manhattan criminal court, in which Adams was charged with aggravated harassment, attempted assault, criminal obstruction of breathing and criminal mischief.
The NYPD also alleges “evidence of a deterioration in his mental health condition” – a necessary condition for obtaining a red flag order.
A spokesperson for Lander said Adams was first hired at the office in 2010, terminated four years later and then rehired in 2016.
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