The Suffolk county police dept. tapped the phone of a low level street dealer and soon found out that NYC police officers were involved in a multi-level drug operation.
Suffolk county in cooperation with the NYPD internal affairs unit arrested all of the officers involved and 49 civilians. The probe which lasted five months included undercover drug buys and electronic surveillance. Twenty-five vehicles were seized also seized was an undisclosed amount of cash and drugs.
The cops acted as venture capitalists and pooled their money to buy cocaine from known Brooklyn drug dealers for resale in Suffolk county.
According to unknowing Suffolk authorities the cops made purchases that amounted to four ounces at a time. Eurells admitted involvement to the US Attorneys office Southern District (which he later cooperated along with the DEA and Internal Affairs Department in an ongoing undercover probe of his former partner Michael Dowd and Colombian drug dealers) were purchases of up to one kilo.
Investigators were stunned when Eurell explained how they were protecting and assisting narcotics traffickers for weekly payoffs of $10,000.00.
To the left you can read the true story of one of the key players in the New York police departments biggest scandles ever.
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