Jerry Bowens has been charged with official misconduct, falsifying records and narcotics

Four police officers in Brooklyn are under arrest in a case that involves paying informants not with cash or leniency but with the very drugs they craved, taken from the dealers who were arrested after the informants pointed them out. Al Baker reports that two of the officers were charged in an internal sting last week after another was caught on a department audio tape bragging about the practice in September, officials said. Prosecutors have moved to dismiss more than 80 criminal cases because the officers caught in the scandal were considered critical to successful prosecutions, law enforcement officials said, and the office of the Brooklyn district attorney is analyzing about 100 more potentially tainted cases. (See related graphic.)<br />A related article by William K. Rashbaum notes that since the days of Teddy Roosevelt, the New York City Police Department has faced problems with lax supervision in the early morning hours, when officers prone to corruption or laziness face few challenges, and even fewer commanders.<br />The Daily News reports that the scandal has “compromised more than 150 criminal cases in Brooklyn and could put drug dealers back on the streets,” and reports that a crack addict has told investigators she had sex with one of the arrested police officers, Jerry Bowens, 41. Officer Bowens has been charged with official misconduct, falsifying records and narcotics

Jerry Bowens has been charged with official misconduct, falsifying records and narcotics

Four police officers in Brooklyn are under arrest in a case that involves paying informants not with cash or leniency but with the very drug...

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Romaine Calhoun,Kurjuna Robertson

<strong></strong>Romaine Calhoun, 27, of Port Jervis, yesterday afternoon, a day after arresting another man on the same charge.<br />Police said Calhoun sold cocaine to an undercover Orange County sheriff’s narcotics officer twice over the past two months. Police say they recovered 3.6 grams of cocaine when they picked Calhoun up on Thompson Street at 4:15 p.m. Calhoun was charged with four counts of criminal possession and two counts of criminal sale of a controlled substance, allfelonies. He spent the night in city lockup and will be arraigned in City Court today.<br />The man arrested on Wednesday, Kurjuna Robertson, 31, of Brooklyn, was arraigned in City Court yesterday and sent to Orange County Jail without bail.

Romaine Calhoun,Kurjuna Robertson

Romaine Calhoun, 27, of Port Jervis, yesterday afternoon, a day after arresting another man on the same charge. Police said Calhoun sold coc...

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