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State CO Faces Prison For Shooting at Raccoon

By RICHARD KHAVKINE
Posted 8/9/19

A state Correction Officer who claimed he had fired his weapon at a would-be burglar when he was actually aiming at another type of masked rascal—a raccoon—faces as much as seven years behind bars.

Anthony Greaves, 34, of Jamaica, Queens, was arraigned Aug. 2 for a September 2018 incident during which he emptied his .45-caliber semiautomatic in the direction of a raccoon perched on a fence bordering his 109th Ave. property, the office of acting Queens District Attorney John M. Ryan said.

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