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Lawyer: N.Y. EMT accused of raping wife was set-up

His Dominican wife allegedly threatened to “go to police” he didn’t “go through with the green card”

By Oren Yaniv
The New York Daily News

NEW YORK — The lawyer for a veteran FDNY paramedic who’s accused of raping his new wife defended the first responder as a man who got framed when he tried to divorce her before she became a U.S. resident.

Elwood Thomas, 50, is charged with forcing himself on his 34-year-old wife - sometime in the summer and again last week, but defense attorney Oliver Storch argued Tuesday it was a bad romance, not a violent one.

“He married a younger person and sometimes love doesn’t work out,” the lawyer said after Thomas was arraigned in Brooklyn Criminal Court.

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