NEW YORK - Officer Charged With Aiding Drug Ring

OFF THE WIRE
A New York City police officer accused of providing protected law enforcement information to the head of a drug-dealing organization in Jamaica, Queens, was indicted on Friday by a grand jury in Federal District Court in Brooklyn.
Police Officer Devon Daniels was charged with four counts of accessing a computer database without authorization and four counts of making false statements to federal agents during their investigation.
He faces up to 10 years in prison on each of the computer charges and up to 5 years on each count of lying to the authorities.
Officer Daniels, 30, was arrested in May after a wiretap by the Drug Enforcement Administration found that he had conducted criminal background checks, license plate checks and other favors for Guy Curtis, a heroin dealer who pleaded guilty in January to federal drug charges, court documents said. The D.E.A. began wiretapping Mr. Curtis’s phone in April 2011, which led to the discovery of his connection to Officer Daniels, court documents said. He is believed to be a longtime friend of Mr. Curtis, a law enforcement official briefed on the case said.
Officer Daniels was also accused of driving Mr. Curtis’s car to a crime scene where one of the man’s associates was being arrested and reporting what he learned to Mr. Curtis, court documents said.
Officer Daniels has been suspended without pay. His lawyer could not be reached.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/11/nyregion/new-york-police-officer-accused-of-aiding-drug-dealer-indicted.html