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Hulking ex-NYPD officer kills himself during FBI stop

• By Shawn Cohen, Jamie Schram and Laura Italiano

Gerard Benderoth, 48 — nicknamed "White Rhino" from his days as a strongman competitor — killed himself on a quiet suburban road in Rockland County around 8:20 a.m. after feds pulled him over.

The feds planned to arrest him on a sealed indictment tied to a murder and drug conspiracy case, sources said.

US Attorney Preet Bharara had already busted Benderoth's retired Westchester cop pal Nicholas Tartaglione in December — and slapped him with four murder charges along with drug conspiracy.

"If this guy put a bullet in his head rather than go and talk to them, he must have been in deep," a law enforcement source noted to The Post.

Officers had tried earlier Wednesday to grab Benderoth at his ranch home in Stony Point in Rockland County, where he lived with his wife, Amy, and their four children.


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