The Brooklyn district attorney is planning to review old arrests made by the eight NYPD officers who were arrested Tuesday on charges of smuggling weapons and illegal goods.
The DA's office will comb through any cases that involved the officers, who were all charged in federal court with multiple conspiracy counts.
The officers arrested include five active-duty officers assigned to Brooklyn and three retired NYPD officers, although two of the retired officers were active when committing the alleged crimes, prosecutors said.
Most of the officers worked out of the 68th Precinct, which serves the Bay Ridge, Dyker Heights and Fort Hamilton neighborhoods.
According to the criminal complaint, some of those arrested smuggled 20 firearms as recently as Sept. 22. The cache included three M-16 rifles, one shotgun and 16 handguns, most of which had their serial numbers removed.
One officer bragged to an informant in July, as an associate displayed a shotgun for sale, that it was a "sample" and that they could get anything "from A to Z."
Several of those arrested are also accused of illegally transporting other stolen goods. The group is accused of transporting stolen slot machines from Atlantic City, N.J., to Port Chester, N.Y., in March. Two months later, they allegedly stole more than 200 cases of cigarettes from trucks in Virginia and hauled them to New York.
Eye to eye compliments of the day regards ,
ReplyDeleteI found it quite interesting that is now coming to the Surface the level of corruption within the New York City police department .
And the many lives that have been destroyed and families decimated .
If all you eat investigating current Breaches of the public oath of office.
Eye to eye heart to heart to the wall and back .
And with this investigation also going to the department of criminal justice .