Letija Plancic (Oksana Lada) is a villainess from "Self Cleaning Oven", episode 1.05 of NYC 22 (airdate July 7, 2012). She was a Croatian woman who was among many who were arrested following a police raid of Crouching Tiger, a massage parlor/brothel.
Another person taken into custody was Brandon Ken, a disoriented man who claimed to have been drugged, kidnapped, and held hostage by a group of foreign men for days before being dropped off at the brothel. While the police were initially unconvinced by his claims, detectives Kenny McLaren and Tonya Sanchez began to suspect there was truth in his statement after Brandon's husband Jimmy came to the station looking for Brandon, and later revealed that his and Brandon's credit cards had been maxed out.
After learning that one of the prostitutes arrested at the brothel was from Europe, Kenny looked at Letija's arrest file and saw that she was Croatian, leading him to realize that she had a hand in Brandon's abduction. Letija was brought in for interrogation by Kenny and Tonya, with Letija agreeing to confess in exchange for a deal voiding her arrest and allowing her to avoid having her son taken from her. Letija revealed that she conspired with her cousins, Baldovin and Martinus, to drug and kidnap men they perceived as "family types" and hold them until they could empty their bank accounts, later dropping them off at Crouching Tiger to cover their tracks. Letija's role in the scam was to help get her cousins' victims into their apartment and undress them, doing so to convince them they slept together and make them embarrassed enough to where they wouldn't go to the police. Baldovin and Martinus were arrested at their apartment and their most recent victim was rescued, though Letija's fate was left unknown.
Trivia[]
- Letija Plancic is NYC 22's first villainess.