No deal.
Ex-cop Edwin Coello, accused of strangling his wife and dumping her body off a Westchester parkway, today rejected a plea deal that came with a lengthy prison sentence.
The refusal means Coello, 41, must face a jury for the brutal murder of Tina Adovasio and what prosecutors say is a mountain of evidence that he flew into a rage and killed her last year after she accused him of cheating.
With jury selection already underway, Bronx Supreme Court Judge Ralph Fabrizio said Coello “did not want to even entertain discussing” the district attorney’s recent offer: Plead guilty of first-degree manslaughter in exchange for a sentence of up to 25 years.
The one-time housing cop has a history of domestic abuse, according to court records, and was forced to quit the force after abusing a former girlfriend.
Fabrizio added that the rejection marked the end of plea negotiations — even if Coello copped to murder — and ordered attorneys to continue to questions potential jurors.
“This court will not under any circumstances consider any plea to anything from this point on, even to murder,” Fabrizio said.
Adovasio, a nurse, vanished March 6, 2011, from her Bronx home. Her beaten and strangled body was found six days later in a wooded area off the Taconic Parkway in Yorktown Heights.
In a major blow to defense attorneys, Fabrizio earlier this month ruled that jurors would be allowed to see text messages sent between the couple in the days before she was killed.
Prosecutors say Adovasio’s accusations that Coello was cheating on her caused him to fly into a rage and kill her. Adovasio, 40, also told him she wanted a divorce.
In one text read during a pre-trial hearing, Adovasio invited him to “live your life as a single guy,’’ take “your s–t’’ and get out. In another, she labled Coello “pathetic.”
His lawyer, Renee Hill, declined to comment.