News (Media Awareness Project) - US NY: Three NYPD Cops Hit With Drug-transporting Rap |
| Title: | US NY: Three NYPD Cops Hit With Drug-transporting Rap |
| Published On: | 2000-10-26 |
| Source: | New York Post (NY) |
| Fetched On: | 2008-09-03 04:14:07 |
THREE NYPD COPS HIT WITH DRUG-TRANSPORTING RAP
Three city cops - including a decorated Manhattan homicide detective - were
charged yesterday with transporting cocaine and heroin out of state for a
Washington Heights husband-wife drug-dealing team.
The cops used station-house phones and their department-issued beepers to
stay in touch with the couple, prosecutors charged.
Detective Willie Parson, 43, a second-grade detective in Manhattan North
Homicide, Detective Steven Fuller, a third-grade detective, and retired cop
and former police-union delegate Philip Moog were arraigned in Brooklyn
federal court yesterday on charges of conspiracy to distribute cocaine and
heroin. They face up to life in prison if convicted.
Prosecutors said the cops made between $1,000 and $3,000 per kilogram of
heroin delivered, and about $700 per kilo of cocaine delivered, as well as
a $500 bonus for transporting money back to the couple.
Francisco Ubejo and his common-law wife, Miladys Tineo, who run Illusion
Fashion on Broadway at 158th Street, are also in custody.
Parson was a childhood friend of Ubejo, investigators told The Post, and
Parson and Fuller attended the Police Academy together.
Parson has a distinguished, 18-year career. He has been decorated with 10
department medals, including the Combat Cross for taking a bullet while
trying to stop a Bronx robbery in 1994.
A 1994 news report about Parson's heroic efforts to solve the murder of a
homeless drug addict described him as having "managed to avoid the lure of
drugs and crime, thanks to his parents' strict work ethic, an assortment of
sports programs, the Fresh Air Fund and a brief career in the military."
"When Parson's own brother developed a cocaine addiction, Willie had him
locked up," the report said.
He also worked in the 30th Precinct, during the Harlem station house's
notorious "Dirty Thirty" drug-corruption scandals in the mid-'90s.
The arrests conclude a three-year investigation by a joint FBI-NYPD
narcotics squad.
The cops are being held pending a bail hearing tomorrow.
Three city cops - including a decorated Manhattan homicide detective - were
charged yesterday with transporting cocaine and heroin out of state for a
Washington Heights husband-wife drug-dealing team.
The cops used station-house phones and their department-issued beepers to
stay in touch with the couple, prosecutors charged.
Detective Willie Parson, 43, a second-grade detective in Manhattan North
Homicide, Detective Steven Fuller, a third-grade detective, and retired cop
and former police-union delegate Philip Moog were arraigned in Brooklyn
federal court yesterday on charges of conspiracy to distribute cocaine and
heroin. They face up to life in prison if convicted.
Prosecutors said the cops made between $1,000 and $3,000 per kilogram of
heroin delivered, and about $700 per kilo of cocaine delivered, as well as
a $500 bonus for transporting money back to the couple.
Francisco Ubejo and his common-law wife, Miladys Tineo, who run Illusion
Fashion on Broadway at 158th Street, are also in custody.
Parson was a childhood friend of Ubejo, investigators told The Post, and
Parson and Fuller attended the Police Academy together.
Parson has a distinguished, 18-year career. He has been decorated with 10
department medals, including the Combat Cross for taking a bullet while
trying to stop a Bronx robbery in 1994.
A 1994 news report about Parson's heroic efforts to solve the murder of a
homeless drug addict described him as having "managed to avoid the lure of
drugs and crime, thanks to his parents' strict work ethic, an assortment of
sports programs, the Fresh Air Fund and a brief career in the military."
"When Parson's own brother developed a cocaine addiction, Willie had him
locked up," the report said.
He also worked in the 30th Precinct, during the Harlem station house's
notorious "Dirty Thirty" drug-corruption scandals in the mid-'90s.
The arrests conclude a three-year investigation by a joint FBI-NYPD
narcotics squad.
The cops are being held pending a bail hearing tomorrow.
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