Police were planning to search the car and possibly bust the alleged drug dealer, the source added, describing him as a major player.. The egregious case led to the discovery of a history of child abuse in the home. Thanks to the great work of my prosecutors and the SCPD, there is a small measure of justice in Michael Valva receiving the maximum sentence, Tierney said. Powered and implemented by FactSet Digital Solutions. Earlier today, in federal court in Brooklyn, Robert Smith, a former New York City Police Department (NYPD) police officer, was sentenced by United States District Judge Rachel P. Kovner to 97 months of imprisonment for using interstate facilities to commit bribery and attempting to transport heroin. A former officer with the New York Police Department was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison Thursday after he was found guilty last month of murder in the second degree related to the death of his 8-year-old son, Thomas. NEW YORK A former officer of the New York City Police Department (NYPD) was sentenced Thursday after being found guilty of conspiring to launder the proceeds of a prostitution enterprise. The policy is in place because you want police officers to be somewhat incorruptible, said John Jay College of Criminal Justice professor Joseph Giacalone, a former NYPD sergeant. Another man charged in the Jan. 6 riot pleaded guilty on Thursday to assaulting law enforcement officers with pepper spray. Second Former NYPD Officer Sentenced to Federal Prison for Social Reuters, the news and media division of Thomson Reuters, is the worlds largest multimedia news provider, reaching billions of people worldwide every day. Beginning in January 2020, Smith discussed his plan to recruit Busch to participate in the scheme in advance of his retirement from the NYPD. Her social media posts on Instagram and Reddit show the officer lying in the sun under palm trees in Cancun, Mexico. Another co-defendant, Robert Hassett, also a former NYPD police officer, pleaded guilty in October 2021 to conspiracy to violate the Travel Act and is awaiting sentencing. From the U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of New York: Earlier this year, in a related case also involving a former NYPD police officer and New York City Fire Department ("FDNY") firefighter, SCOTT MARAIO was sentenced to one year and one day in prison on January 23, 2019 by U.S. District Judge Sidney H. Stein for fraudulently collecting over approximately 360,000 in Social . Suffolk Judge . Published Over the course of its operations, BJM collected millions of dollars in payments, including more than $2 million in credit card payments between October 2012 and March 2016. We've received your submission. I felt like I was the cop and he was the protester, he added. Bajraktarevic closed her front door in the face of another reporter who tried to talk to her in Yonkers. Massapequa, New York, ROBERT HASSETT Former NYPD Officer From Plainview Sentenced For Bribery, Drug Those officers may have been picked out for scrutiny because district attorneys declined to . The arrest and subsequent conviction followed an investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) in . Legal Statement. Mutual Fund and ETF data provided by Refinitiv Lipper. The sentence is the longest prison term yet for a defendant in the Justice Department's criminal investigation of Jan. 6, but short of the 17.5 years prosecutors had sought for Webster. Ex-NYPD officer gets 4 years in alleged murder-for-hire plot against The cop was warned about a year ago not to associate with the alleged dealer after she tried to intervene when police went to his home in northern Manhattan, the sources said.