Drunk driver Jessica Beauvais is CONVICTED of killing NYPD cop in horrific hit-and-run

A Long Island female who was charged pinch nan decease of an NYPD Highway Officer has been recovered blameworthy by tribunal connected each accounts. 

Anastasios Tsakos, 43, had been directing postulation distant from a fatal clang successful April 2021 erstwhile Jessica Beauvais - drunk and precocious - plowed into him, throwing his assemblage astir 200 feet down nan highway. 

Tsakos's near limb was severed from nan knee down, and he died astatine a adjacent hospital. Beauvais fled nan segment and was later arrested aft constabulary chased her for 3 miles.

She was convicted of each 13 charges, which included manslaughter successful nan 2nd degree, aggravated manslaughter successful nan 2nd degree, vehicular manslaughter successful nan 2nd grade and leaving nan segment of an incident without reporting/death. 

The tribunal will condemnation her successful December. She could beryllium imprisoned for complete 15 years. 

Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz said aft nan conviction: 'The suspect had perfectly nary business being down nan wheel. 

'Her selfish decision-making and recklessness led to a horrific, senseless calamity that near Detective Tsakos' widow to raise their 2 young children without their father. 

'We are grateful for nan jury's verdict and dream it brings astatine slightest immoderate measurement of solace to nan detective's loved ones.'

Patrick Hendry, president of nan Police Benevolent Association, besides said extracurricular of court: 'We’re relieved to yet spot immoderate justice. We’re not going to observe today. 

'The facts were clear arsenic ever successful this case. She decided to get down that instrumentality aft drinking alcohol, doing drugs. … She’s going to situation for a agelong time. Not agelong enough.' 

On nan nighttime of nan crash, Beauvais had earlier filmed herself successful a Facebook livestream wherever she addressed nan proceedings of achromatic ex-cop Derek Chauvin for nan execution of George Floyd, which happened successful May 2020. 

During nan livestream, she slammed constabulary officers and nan justness strategy and played N.W.A opus 'F**k Tha Police'.

Throughout nan video, Beauvais is seen vaping and drinking an chartless acheronian liquid from a integrative cup. At 1 point, she washes down nan contents of a reddish changeable solid pinch a vessel of Snapple.

Beauvais besides claimed that if she ever had a fatal brushwood pinch police, she would make judge she wasn't nan only victim.

'Like (hip hop group) NWA opportunity astir nan constabulary - if you're going to termination me, astatine slightest I get to return personification pinch me,' she told listeners.

'I'm 1 of those people. If I'm going to go, personification is coming.'

Beauvais past sewage down nan instrumentality of her Volkswagen and slammed into Tsakos connected nan Long Island Expressway successful nan early hours of nan morning.

New York Presbyterian EMS worker Kevin Beverly told nan tribunal that nan officer's look was 'split successful two.'

'There was a batch of facial trauma, a batch of swelling, bleeding, bleeding from nan ears, bruising connected nan cervix area,' Beverly said. 'He had a near limb amputation beneath nan knee halfway down.'

Assistant District Attorney Greg Lasak Jr. told nan court: 'His organs and bones were crushed. His limb was amputated. He landed 171 feet from impact.

'She near him location connected nan broadside of nan roadworthy to die, without his leg.'

The tribunal was shown photos of Tsakos's battered body. His look was masked successful blood, his eyes closed, chemoreceptor surgery and rima stuffed pinch gauze.

One of his police-issued boots was strewn successful nan road, arsenic good arsenic his hat, which was knocked from his caput upon impact.

Jurors were besides shown a photograph of an NYPD Highway Patrol pin that Tsakos had been wearing astatine nan clip of his death.

Lasak Jr. further told nan court: 'She admitted during nan podcast to taking a shot. She admitted aft nan podcast she had different changeable of liquor.

'Her eyes were bloodshot and watery, she was unstable connected her feet and her reside was slurred.

'In her cup holder was a pinkish liquid. A beardown mixed drink. In her different cup holder successful nan halfway console was an ashtray containing cannabis.'

Exclusive photos taken by Dailymail.com showed nan aftermath of nan grisly crime.

Exhibits presented to nan tribunal show nan crumpled hood of Beauvais's 2013 Volkswagen and nan smashed beforehand windshield wherever Tsakos's assemblage collided and collapsed nan glass. 

Another photograph depicting a bluish glow on nan tile and trunk appears to show nan way nan officer's assemblage traveled arsenic it rolled down nan magnitude of nan car.

The glow appears to beryllium luminol, a chemic that reacts pinch nan robust successful humor to show traces invisible to nan naked eye.

A photograph from wrong nan car shows nan level showered pinch shards of solid and an assortment of items, including a conduit of lip-gloss, a mini notepad and tweezers, arsenic good arsenic a integrative container containing a folded gaffe of insubstantial folded.

Other pictures show nan harm sustained to nan windshield arsenic Beauvais plowed into nan officer, hitting him truthful difficult that nan solid bent inwards.

The beforehand seats and dashboard are besides littered pinch glass. 

Behind nan gearshift, an grounds paper denotes wherever a mini instrumentality of marijuana was found. The instrumentality was presented arsenic grounds successful a abstracted image.

After her arrest, Beauvais is alleged to person said: 'Why did my first mishap person to beryllium a cop?

'Not that I wanted it to beryllium personification else, but f**k, I've been driving since I was 16 and haven't deed arsenic overmuch arsenic a pothole.'

She offered a tearful apology arsenic she was being taken for arraignment successful May 2021, telling reporters: 'I'm sorry. I'm sorry that I deed him and now he's dead.'

Tsakos, affectionately known arsenic 'Tasso,' was a joined begetter of 2 who had precocious moved to East Northport earlier his death.

He grew up successful Greece and New York City earlier serving successful nan Greek service aft precocious school.

Tsakos worked successful his father's diner connected Long Island, earlier studying aviation successful assemblage to travel his dreams of flying helicopters for nan NYPD.

Hundreds mourned astatine his funeral, wherever Tsakos was posthumously promoted to nan rank of detective.