police intelligence and information about fellow cops to a drug trafficking organization.
Devon Daniels, 30, was
arrested by the Drug Enforcement Administration and NYPD Internal Affairs
detectives and is scheduled to be arraigned later today in Brooklyn federal
court.
Daniels is charged with
illegally accessing the NYPD's computer database to provide restricted
information to a drug trafficking organization with both Midwestern and New
York City connections, officials said.
Brooklyn federal
prosecutors say that Daniels also gave an official police department parking
placard to a drug distributor and tipped the gang to details about cops
involved in narcotics investigations.
Investigators from the
DEA, NYPD, and the Internal Revenue Service, say they traced wire transfers of
money from drug distributors in Wichita, Kansas, that were deposited into an a
bank account held by Daniels, which ostensibly were payments for his corrupt
services, according to an official complaint.
Daniels also used mobile
computer terminals inside NYPD cruisers at the 111th Precinct in Bayside,
Queens, to run license plate registration checks, and then sent text messages
to a drug dealer based in Jamaica, Queens, with information gleaned from the
police department's computer database, officials said.
In addition, DEA agents
say that Daniels also ran computer checks to see if people tied to drug
trafficking organizations were wanted by the police and unlawfully accessed the
NYPD database to retrieve information about criminal rap sheets, later
supplying t to the drug dealers, officials said.