Queens, NY - Are Some NYPD Cops Thieves?
Queens, NY - Police investigators have swarmed a Queens station house - where "one or more dirty cops" apparently swiped as many as five guns.
The weapons - turned in by a retired detective at the 110th Precinct in Elmhurst - mysteriously vanished not long after about $5,000 was stolen at the same station house. The weapons were in the property room, the most secure thing in a precinct, except for a cell. The property room is under lock and key . . . so it could only be a cop who got access to the key. A civilian has no access.
Retiring cops are required to temporarily surrender their guns to the NYPD until they receive permits, which can take up to several weeks. The weapons, up to four or five handguns, were owned by the retiring detective.
The money was taken six weeks ago from a clear, sealed plastic envelope that was sitting on a desk in the station house awaiting deposit at a bank after being vouchered by cops. If that remaining money had been deposited, it would have been difficult or impossible to later determine at what point the rest of the cash had been stolen, because so many people would have handled it. But they found it missing there in the precinct, and the amount taken is believed to have been up to $5,000.
After the thefts occurred, a guard was posted at the property room and a lot of new faces showed up in the precinct, according to the source, who added the new arrivals are suspected of being undercover Internal Affairs officers. The atmosphere is so tense, you don't even want to walk in that the station house to go to the bathroom if you don't have to.
NYPD spokesman Paul Browne refused comment when asked about the thefts and the related investigation.
The weapons - turned in by a retired detective at the 110th Precinct in Elmhurst - mysteriously vanished not long after about $5,000 was stolen at the same station house. The weapons were in the property room, the most secure thing in a precinct, except for a cell. The property room is under lock and key . . . so it could only be a cop who got access to the key. A civilian has no access.
Retiring cops are required to temporarily surrender their guns to the NYPD until they receive permits, which can take up to several weeks. The weapons, up to four or five handguns, were owned by the retiring detective.
The money was taken six weeks ago from a clear, sealed plastic envelope that was sitting on a desk in the station house awaiting deposit at a bank after being vouchered by cops. If that remaining money had been deposited, it would have been difficult or impossible to later determine at what point the rest of the cash had been stolen, because so many people would have handled it. But they found it missing there in the precinct, and the amount taken is believed to have been up to $5,000.
After the thefts occurred, a guard was posted at the property room and a lot of new faces showed up in the precinct, according to the source, who added the new arrivals are suspected of being undercover Internal Affairs officers. The atmosphere is so tense, you don't even want to walk in that the station house to go to the bathroom if you don't have to.
NYPD spokesman Paul Browne refused comment when asked about the thefts and the related investigation.
posted by VOS IZ NEIAS @ 5/15/2006 10:02:00 AM
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