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ItsjustMe

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Wed Nov 11, 2020, 09:23 AM Nov 2020

FBI Arrests NYPD Cop at Long Island Home on Drug Distribution Charges

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/fbi-arrests-nypd-cop-at-long-island-home-on-drug-distribution-charges-sources/2713195/

An NYPD police officer and four others were arrested on federal charges of conspiracy to import and distribute cocaine, federal prosecutors said Monday.

Over the course of almost five years, Amaury Abreu, 34, was an alleged member of a multinational drug trafficking operation and used his position within the NYPD to "protect his co-conspirators," the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York announced in a press release.

Dating back to Jan. 2016, prosecutors allege Abreu provided law enforcement information to others in the trafficking operation to conceal their actions and checked warrants on its members. In at least one instance, feds said, he distributed cocaine.

"Today I’m going to find out the thing I couldn’t yesterday because there were too many people at the office," Abreu said in one message to the traffickers, according to court records.

Officials from the FBI arrested Abreu, who was assigned to the 113th Precinct, at his Long Island home Monday morning, the district attorney's office said. He entered a plea of not guilty Monday afternoon in federal court and was released on a $1 million bond with home detention.
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FBI Arrests NYPD Cop at Long Island Home on Drug Distribution Charges (Original Post) ItsjustMe Nov 2020 OP
Did they burst in the door, start firing, Aristus Nov 2020 #1
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