An NYPD officer faces up to seven years in prison on a felony perjury rap, as well as three counts of Official Misconduct, for lying under oath, conducting unlawful searches and seizures in Northern Manhattan, and directing subordinates to falsify paperwork in order to make the arrests appears to be legitimate, the Manhattan DA's office announced yesterday. Michael Carsey, now a 31-year old ex-cop, pleaded guilty to the charges yesterday as part of a plea deal. He's the second officer to be convicted as part of this investigation; Carsey's superior, William Eiseman, 39, is currently serving three months in jail (on weeknds!) for his shenanigans, which forced the DA to repeatedly drop the charges because of shady police work. more ›

Yesterday, the Department of Justice charged four East Haven, Connecticut police officers with "conspiring to violate, and violating, the civil rights" of Latinos: Sergeant John Miller and Officers David Cari, Dennis Spaulding and Jason Zullo are accused of "conspir[ing] to injure, oppress, threaten and intimidate various members of the East Haven community in violation of their constitutional rights... In some cases, the victims were handcuffed with their hands behind their backs when officers assaulted them." And what was the East Haven mayor's reaction? It's time for some Mexican grub! more ›

Last year, the federal authorities charged a police officer for violating the civil rights of a 31-year-old black man, claiming that officer Michael Daragjati falsely arrested him can called him a "n-----" Now, Daragjati's lawyer says they have a plea scheduled. more ›

A Long Island police officer pleaded guilty to making a woman touch his clothed private parts in exchange for not ticketing her friend. Garrett Mannerz, 34, who resigned from the Nassau County Police Department and was sentenced to 80 hours of community service, was arrested after the victim recorded one of the phone calls he made her. Nassau County DA Kathleen Rice siad, "Nassau County is a safer place with Garrett Mannerz off the police force." more ›

An NYPD veteran was arrested this morning and accused of indiscriminately pepper-spraying two people without proper caues. No, not Tony Bologna (star of the new hit series The Vigilogna), but rather Officer Admir Kacamakovic, who has been on the force for seven years and assigned to the 62nd Precinct. According to the FBI, Kacamakovic, while on duty and in uniform, pepper-sprayed two patrons outside his cousin's bar in 2008 while screaming, "No one f***s with my cousin’s place!" And his deep concern for his cousin's business didn't end there, prosecutors allege. more ›

A few months before they were accused of raping a drunk East Village woman in her apartment, the two police officers charged (and found not guilty) in the incident had another questionable encounter with an inebriated young woman in the neighborhood, the Village Voice reports. The unidentified woman, who was 21 at the time, was interviewed by investigators looking into the rape charges, but the jurors never heard about the incident in court. Here are the broad strokes: more ›

In case you were in the middle about it, it seems that modeling your life after that of Vic Mackey on The Shield is decidedly not a good idea: the former NYPD officer who admitted to making more than 100 robberies stealing from drug dealers has been sentenced to 20 years in jail. And the Judge was quite unimpressed with Jorge Arbaje-Diaz's excuse as to why he did it: "The idea that he was motivated by a variable-rate mortgage puts us in the world of the absurd," said Brooklyn Federal Judge Nicholas Garaufis. more ›

On the eve of jury selection for his trial in Brooklyn Federal Court, an eight-year veteran of the NYPD decided to plead guilty to participating in a violent robbery crew that dressed as cops to steal from drug dealers. Emmanuel Tavarez, 31, and his crew, which included family members, were responsible for more than 100 armed robberies of narcotics traffickers that netted more than 250 kilograms of cocaine and $1 million in drug proceeds over the course of a decade. more ›

While we're not huge fans of strained renditions of "Shout" or "for the driver in the black 1994 Lincoln sedan…" announcements, we know that most wedding singers are just doing their jobs and trying to bring a little joy to that special day. But ex-NYPD cop-turned-wedding singer Francis Livoti raises the tolerability index considerably. more ›

The trial of the two police officers accused of raping a drunk East Village woman has been delayed another week because the cops have been hit with new charges. Kenneth Moreno and Franklin Mata now face "11 [more] charges against the officers, including official misconduct and falsifying business records," for their alleged role in the 2008 incident—and there's new evidence, a video showing them entering the woman's apartment building a fourth time." The prosecution and a defense lawyer each claimed that the evidence would help them. more ›

A 13-year Queens North narcotics detective pleaded guilty yesterday to forcing a woman under arrest to perform oral sex on him in a station house bathroom, after threatening to use his authority to take away her kids. Detective Oscar Sandino also admitted to forcing another female in police custody to remove her clothes while he masturbated. "I then proceeded to rub my genital area in her presence, and forced her to lift her shirt and expose her upper body," Sandino told a judge yesterday, according to the Post. more ›

In January, former NYPD sergeant Mario Buonviaggio was fired after pleading guilty to using his ex-girlfriend's credit card and checking account to send porn, lingerie and an inflatable sex doll to her home. The total cost of the prank, which included buying Pay-Per-View events, came to $400, but that doesn't include the cost of Buonviaggio losing his job and health insurance one year before he was eligible for retirement. He sued the city earlier this year to get his job back, but a judge has now ruled that the punishment fit the crime. more ›

A former postal worker who spent 18 years in prison for a murder he didn't commit won the largest personal settlement the city has ever agreed to pay: $9.9 million. Thanks to the Innocence Project, Barry Gibbs was set free in 2005 after prosecutors' key witness admitted that Detective Louis Eppolito had forced him pick Gibbs out of a line up, even though the man he'd seen was smaller and shorter. Eppolito and his partner Stephen Caracappa are in prison for life for taking part in mob-related killings and doing other dirty work for the Luchese crime family. more ›

A former Community Affairs officer working out of Harlem's 28th Precinct was convicted of sexually abusing two women, who claimed he used his position as a cop to promise them jobs or child care, get their contact information and later victimize them. Justice Daniel FitzGerald revoked his bail and said, "It tears into the fabric of the relationship between every police officer and the public." Rosario, who claimed that the charges were part of a conspiracy against him, now faces a rape trial for a separate incident; he was already convicted to coercing an 18-year-old into performing oral sex on him in exchange for ripping up a summons. more ›

After being previously found guilty of telling a teenager that if she performed oral sex on him he'd destroy a summons for trespassing in Riverside Park, ex-cop Wilfredo Rosario is currently on trial on charges that he sexually assaulted two women after luring them with promises of applications for jobs and programs for their children. But during testimony yesterday, Rosario insisted that the women were lying and that he's the victim of a plot perpetrated by the NYPD and prosecutors. more ›

Lest you think yesterday's arrest of an allegedly sex-crazed abusive narcotics detective is just an isolated incident, there's yet another rapist cop in the news. Yesterday ex-cop Wilfredo Rosario (who was previously found guilty of telling a teenager that if she performed oral sex on him he'd destroy a summons for trespassing in Riverside Park) went on trial for two other alleged violations: that he sexually abused two women after luring them with promises of applications for jobs and programs for their children. And a fourth trial for rape looms for Rosario after this one. more ›

A 13-year Queens North narcotics detective was arrested today on sexual misconduct charges, concluding a multi-year investigation by Internal Affairs and the FBI. Oscar Sandino, 37, is accused of forcing a woman he arrested during a February 2008 drug raid to perform oral sex on him in the precinct bathroom. Before that—during the arrest—he allegedly took her into her bedroom and forced her to undress, and later told her that she was going to jail and would lose her children unless she had sex with him. more ›

A former NYPD officer pleaded guilty yesterday to being part of a stickup crew that dressed up as cops and made more than 100 robberies stealing from drug dealers. Jorge "Shorty" Arbaje-Diaz, 31, a three-year veteran of the force, admitted to stealing more than $4 million in cash and 1,650 pounds of cocaine from his drug dealers. He faces between a mandatory minimum of 10 years and a maximum of 22 years when he is sentenced in the fall. more ›

A eight-year veteran of the NYPD was arrested yesterday for allegedly conspiring with a robbery crew that posed as cops to raid drug traffickers' homes, netting $1 million in drug proceeds and more than 250 kilos of cocaine from over 100 robberies. Long Island's Emmanuel Tavarez, 30, joined the NYPD in 2002 and spent most of his time in the Transit Bureau. But it was his side gig that really made it rain. more ›

A 15-year veteran of the NYPD now faces federal robbery charges for allegedly scheming to steal nearly $1 million in cash rumored to be hidden in the former apartment of a drug dealer. Shawn Jenkins, 41, a highway safety officer, had apparently worked as a bodyguard for a drug dealer who was deported to the Dominican Republic. The drug dealer told him where the money was—in an Upper West Side apartment—and wanted him to give some of the money to his mother. The Daily News reports, "The problem was Jenkins needed help getting into the apartment, so he wanted the informant to help him serve an official-looking summons on the current tenant and zap him with a stun gun." Jenkins was arrested early yesterday morning in Washington Heights (he apparently "had a hand-scrawled floor plan supplied by the dealer"); his bail was set at $200,000. The tenant also told the authorities the apartment had been repeatedly robbed, probably by people suspecting there might be a booty hidden away; one time, a burglar "ripped up the floorboards while the tenant was on vacation." more ›

Nearly three years after being convicted, former cops Louis Eppolito and Stephen Caracappa were sentenced to life in prison for carrying out eight murders for the mafia. more ›

The NYPD has stripped two police officers of their badges and guns and put on modified duty as they investigate an accusation that a police officer raped an East Village resident. The Daily News reports, "The officer and his partner came to the woman after a cab driver called 911 on Dec. 7, telling cops she had vomited in his car and couldn't find cab fare." The officers apparently escorted the woman home. more ›

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Police officer Jorge H. Arbaje-Diaz was arrested for his alleged involvement in a "brazen drug robbery gang, which stole more than $4 million in dirty narcotics money from dealers up and down the East Coast," according to the Post. Prosecutors say the gang had a haul of 750 kilos of cocaine; the Daily News reports that Arbaje-Davis, a three-year NYPD veteran, "used his job to enter the homes of some victims, and in one case participated in an armed robbery while wearing his NYPD uniform, badge, gun and handcuffs." The indictment also says he "threaten[ed] to arrest them if they did not reveal where their drugs and money were stored." Additionally, another retired NYPD may have also been part of the gang which "kidnapped and sexually tortured some of their victims." more ›

Drug charges against four men were dropped when a video showed they had no contact with undercover police officers before they were arrested. Four cops had claimed they bought crack cocaine from the men, but the video showed otherwise and prosecutors said the accused men, Jose Colon and Maximo Colon and two others, didn't do the crime. WCBS 2 reports, "In the 6 months it took to clear the Colon brothers names, they lost their business and their savings." The Post reports three of the four cops are under investigation and could face seven years in prison if convicted. more ›

The hits keep coming for the NYPD. Yesterday, federal prosecutors accused a Brooklyn detective of drug trafficking. The indictment (you can read it here) claims Batista would leak law enforcement information to a cocaine ring that also engaged in violence. more ›

Queens DA Richard Brown announced an off-duty NYPD detective and his girlfriend were charged with promoting the prostitution of a 13-year-old Brooklyn runaway. Brown said, “This case is every parent and every child’s worst nightmare – made even more frightening by the fact that one of the defendants is a police officer who swore to uphold the law and protect the community he serves.” more ›

Let's go to the audiotape digital recording! A Bronx detective was indicted on perjury charges after claiming in court that he never interrogated a teen shooting suspect - only for the teen to reveal he recorded the interrogation. Back in December 2005, 17-year-old Erik Crespo was accused of shooting a man in a High Bridge apartment building. He was arrested and when Detective Christopher Perino interviewed him, he used an MP3 player to record their... more ›