Dirty NY Cop Pleads Guilty
A narcotics officer in New York City pleaded guilty today in federal court to stealing more than $100k from a drug dealer. He is the 8th officer to be implicated in the scandal. He faces up to five years in prison.
So many of our clients tell us the cops took more money than they reported on the evidence form. Usually, it's too hard to prove and the client has no recourse. Who's going to believe a drug dealer over a cop?
But sometimes, the cops get undone over something else and it comes to light. That happened to one of our clients in a Ft. Lauderdale drug case some years back...by the end of the case, a Customs agent and three members of the Hallendale police department went to jail for several years, and our client, who they had tricked into buying (not selling) drugs, taking $200k from him, got freed from jail....after serving a year in the county jail while awaiting trial.
Cops are like everyone else. There are good ones and bad ones. And sometimes, just like other people, good cops do bad things. It's why we never understand why juries seem so ready to believe the word of a police officer over other witnesses.
From the Miami Herald, 10/29/97 (available on Lexis.com):
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