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CI charged with perjury for false information leading to false search warrant

By John Wesley Hall, Jr.

Informant lies to NYPD, innocents get searched, and the informant gets charged with perjury. See WABC TV news, which takes credit for this investigation, posted July 17: Informant arrested after misguided raids: "Sometimes, however, you will get a situation where the police may act too quickly, where there's no immediate urgency to go into an apartment, and, in fact, the police may have the time to verify the information that's given to them by the informant," explained Robert Silbering, a former special narcotics prosecutor in New York City. Top brass at the NYPD have confirmed a full investigation. Regarding Cynthia and Jerry, they say, "Obviously they should not have had to undergo being detained...." Specifically regarding Jerry, a prostate cancer survivor, being cuffed and thrown on his floor, they say, "We regret that it happened to him...continue to full post

Full post as published by Fourth Amendment on July 18, 2008 (boomark / email).