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Related: About this forumEx-cop gets 15 years in prison for selling NYPD guns to drug ring
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A dirty cop was sentenced to 15 years in prison for stealing guns from his East Village police station house for his drug dealer.Nicholas Mina, who'd been a cop for four years, peddled four 9 mm guns from his coworkers' lockers so he could feed his prescription drug habit, said his lawyer Robert Gallo. In addition to swiping three Glocks and a Smith & Wesson at the Ninth Precinct earlier this year, Mina admitted to selling his own private-use Glock - and investigators caught him on wiretaps talking about taking and selling more guns.Those weapons could have been used against Mina's fellow officers, the judge noted. Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance called the case "a striking example of the destruction that surrounds prescription drug abuse.""The defendant took an oath to protect New Yorkers from criminals. Instead, he worked alongside a gun trafficker in order to feed his drug addiction," Vance said.
Investigators discovered his gun peddling while they were investigating a Queens based drugs-for-guns kingpin named Ivan Chavez.
The cops recovered all four of the stolen weapon plus Minas own gun from Chavezs apartment. He had already heavily defaced the serial numbers. Chavez pleaded guilty to conspiracy and firearms sales in September, and is expected to be sentenced to 20 years behind bars.
The Chavez conspiracy has also embroiled a dot-com millionaire Jennifer Sultan, 38, who allegedly sold Chavez some 60,000 pain pills also recovered in his apartment. She's been working on a plea deal with prosecutors.
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Ex-cop gets 15 years in prison for selling NYPD guns to drug ring (Original Post)
trouble.smith
Nov 2012
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is that why he was able to send NYC cops to out of state gun shows to snoop around?
trouble.smith
Dec 2012
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trouble.smith
(374 posts)1. Mayor Bloomberg warns against gun show loophole
Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)2. I saw that!...
DonP
(6,185 posts)7. We all know Bloomie has nothing to do with his own Police Department
We've been reassured by our resident Bloomie "worshiper" that the police are their own bosses and that the mayor has no control over them.
Even Kelly, who Bloomie "pretended" to personally appoint as Chief, doesn't answer to him for anything.
Yup, Bloomberg is just sitting in Gracie mansion waiting to crush the NRA with his checkbook as soon as he leaves office, why should he care what a few cops do.
Of course he could just declare himself mayor for life I guess?
trouble.smith
(374 posts)8. is that why he was able to send NYC cops to out of state gun shows to snoop around?
ileus
(15,396 posts)3. Someone probably had these stored in gun safe.
Clames
(2,038 posts)4. Obviously it is reckless for cops to store their guns...
...in safes or lockers at the police station.
Tuesday Afternoon
(56,912 posts)5. how much more hidden can a criminal get?
ileus
(15,396 posts)6. If you can't trust government with storing firearms...
can we ever trust the common citizen with such responsibility?