In a cash stash
Living in a house full of cash.. A dream come true? It can be more of a nightmare. Last week, a 41-year-old officer of the NYPD has been arrested in Manhattan on charges of conspiring and attempting to rob an apartment in Manhattan to obtain approximately $900,000 that a former occupant of the apartment, a drug dealer who had been arrested and deported, had left behind.
All of a sudden, the coin dropped for the owner of the apartment, who had no clue of the apartment’s past. The burglaries, including one in which the floor was ripped open, and vague types spying around his apartment were caused by the rumors that a large amount of cash was hidden in the apartment.
The NYPD cop allegedly told a informer of the police that a drug dealer, for whom he used to work as a bodyguard, used to live in the apartment and stashed his booty there. The police officer further told the informer that the drug dealer was put in jail and had asked the police officer to retrieve approximately $900,000 hidden under the floor in a closet in the apartment, where someone else now lived.
At a meeting on May 7, the officer and the informer -who of course informed the “proper” cops afterwards- agreed that the informer would pose as a law enforcement officer, knock on the apartment door, serve an official document on the current occupant to gain entry, and then use a stun gun to immobilize the occupant……
Living in a house full of cash? Be careful what you wish for…
http://www.northcountrygazette.org/2009/05/15/nypd_cop_bust/
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/16/nyregion/16inwood.html
