NYPD detective busted for flashing firearm at Long Island stripper: sources

This wasn’t the way to disarm her.

A NYPD detective was arrested after he allegedly flashed his gun to threaten a stripper outside a Long Island jiggle joint, asking her, “Have you ever been shot?” The Post has learned.

Ryan Olsen was caught on camera lifting his shirt and showing a gun tucked in his waistband to a dancer outside the Carousel Lounge in Huntington Station on Sept. 19, police sources said.

Olsen, 37, who lives nearby, approached the 23-year-old stripper as she was “smoking a blunt” in her car outside the club around 3 a.m., sources familiar with the investigation said.

“Do you know when Bambi’s coming out?” he asked, referring to another dancer, according to sources.

He then asked her to text Bambi to find out.

But the unnamed woman refused to help, and she and NY’s Finest began to squabble in the parking lot, sources said.

Olsen, a cop in the NYPD’s Warrant Section which tracks down wanted criminals, then pulled up his shirt so she could see his gun and asked, “Have you ever been shot?” the dancer told Suffolk County cops, the sources said.

The woman then started screaming, “Get the f–k away! Get the f–k away!” and called her boss inside the club for help as she began driving away, the sources said.

The detective at first tried to calm her down, but then got in his car and drove away, the sources said.

The nightclub already had the gumshoe’s name because he had to provide his driver’s license to get in earlier in the evening, the sources said.

The Suffolk County Police Department investigated and allegedly found surveillance video showing Olsen pulling up his shirt and flashing his firearm, the sources said.

A manager at the club refused to comment on the incident.

On Thursday afternoon, six strippers glumly sat at the U-shaped bar inside the dimly lit space already decorated for Halloween with paper skeletons, pumpkins and orange and black balloons. The women refused to speak to a reporter.

Olsen, a 2010 graduate of John Jay College of Criminal Justice, who made $257,000 last year, pleaded not guilty to a charge of menacing with a gun at his arraignment, court records show.

“Detective Olsen is a respected 15-year member of the New York City Police Department,” Olsen’s lawyer Peter Brill said. “He’s innocent until proven guilty.”

The NYPD’s Internal Affairs Bureau investigates when a police officer is arrested. Olsen could be fired as a result of the charges. 

Olsen has had 23 misconduct allegations filed against him, nine of them substantiated, with the most recent in 2023, online disciplinary records show.

The most recent allegations were for abuse of authority for improper use of a body-worn camera in 2023 and for a vehicle search in 2021 and were substantiated by the independent watchdog Civilian Complaint Review Board, records show. He received formal training and appears to have lost vacation days as a result.