Pubdate: Fri, 18 Jan 2008
Source: Newsday (NY)
Copyright: 2008 Newsday Inc.
Contact:  http://www.newsday.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/308
Author: Luis Perez And Christine Armario
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/coke.htm (Cocaine)

FEDS: NYPD COP HELPED DRUG DEALERS

A New York City police sergeant has been charged with  aiding a
Wyandanch drug dealer who suspected he was  being followed by federal
agents, according to a  complaint filed Friday in U.S. District Court.

Roosevelt Green used a New York Police Department  computer to run the
license plate numbers of two Drug  Enforcement Administration vehicles
surveilling Frank  Wilson, a Wyandanch man arrested in May for leading
a  cocaine distribution ring, the complaint states.

Authorities caught Green and Wilson talking about the  vehicles on a
wiretap and executed a search warrant of  the sergeant's Wyandanch
house on May 22, 2007. Green,  46, was arraigned this afternoon on
charges of unlawful  use of a computer and lying to federal officers.

Magistrate Judge Arlene Rosario Lindsay allowed Green  to leave the
courthouse in Central Islip with his  family after posting a $250,000
cash bond on his house.  Green declined to comment, but his wife spoke
on his  behalf.

"He's a good cop," Sandra Green said. "A very good
cop."

According to the complaint, Green admitted to receiving  a piece of
paper from Wilson with two or three license  plate numbers when he was
questioned by federal agents  following the search warrant in May, but
repeatedly  denied running the plates or providing information to  the
dealer.

"At the conclusion of the interview, the defendant  offered another
explanation, claiming that he could not  remember whether or not he
ran the license plates for  Wilson," the complaint states.

The NYPD, however, confirmed that plates for the two  DEA vehicles
were run from a police car Green was  assigned to on March 31, 2007. A
wiretapped  conversation also recorded Green discussing the plate
searches with Wilson that evening, as a police dispatch  broadcast in
the background.

"The van was good," Green allegedly told Wilson.

"Ah, yeah I know," Wilson replied.

"The other two, it didn't come back to nothing. So I  don't know,"
Green said, according to a transcript  provided in the complaint.

Green told investigators he'd known Wilson for ten  years. Sandra
Green said her husband switched careers  to join the NYPD 11 years
ago, wanting to help people.  She said he started out at the 101st
Precinct in Queens  and was last working in the anti-crime unit 62nd
Precinct in Brooklyn.

Since the execution of the search warrant, he'd been  placed on
modified duty in a fleet unit at a garage.  He's now been officially
suspended.
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