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.