Five police department employees were arrested over two
days, three of them police officers, cops said on March 17, 2013.
NEW YORK CITY — It was a bad weekend for misbehaving members
of the NYPD.
Three police officers were arrested, and two other staffers
who work for the police department, were arrested on a variety of charges that
ran the gamut from DWI and unlawful surveillance to criminal possession of a
weapon and leaving the scene of an accident, according to police.
The rash of arrests started Friday morning, when police
arrested Miguel Gomez, a 41-year-old cop, on unlawful surveillance, police
said. Gomez was nabbed after caught spying on a 21-year-old female neighbor
with video cameras he mounted in his Bronx building, to watch her comings and
goings, the NY Daily News reported.
He had served on the police force for eight years, the paper
reported.
Just three hours later, Traffic Agent Denise Johnson, 37,
was arrested in the Bronx after police found stolen belongings and fake guns in
her Dodge Charger, the NY Post wrote.
Police had recovered footage of her son and his friend
allegedly trying to sell stolen goods from five robberies, the Postreported.
When they confronted Johnson, a five-year veteran, she refused to comply and
police found the items in her car, the paper wrote. Johnson was charged with
criminal possesion of a weapon, possession of stolen property, and obstruction
of government administration.
On Saturday, Bronx police arrested Curline Brown, 55, an
adminsitrative aide for the NYPD, with criminal possesion of a controlled
substance, police said. It was not clear immediately what the substance was,
but a source said it was not marijuana.
Two police officers were arrested Sunday in Queens for
driving while intoxicated, police said. One officer, Joseph King, 28, was
arrested at 4:41 a.m. after getting into a car accident, and fleeing the scene,
then refusing to take a breathalyzer, police said. He was charged with DWI,
leaving the scene of an accident, and refusing a breath test, police said, but
had no details on where or when the crash occurred, or if any civilians or
other cars were involved.
The other police officer, Dennis Munge, 32, was also
arrested for DWI in Queens, but it was unclear how police discovered he was
driving drunk, and a police spokesperson had no information about the arrest's
details.