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NYPD Deputy Commissioner for Internal Affairs Joseph J. Reznick.
BY Forum Staff
A disgraced former City cop has been indicted for allegedly selling and possessing kilos of cocaine, Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced Friday.
Ishmael Bailey, 38, of Staten Island, resigned from the NYPD after his arrest in 2019. He was arraigned on Friday on a 13-count indictment charging him with criminal sale of a controlled substance in the first degree, criminal possession of a controlled substance in the first degree, official misconduct, bribe receiving in the second and third degree and conspiracy in the second and fourth degree. Bailey was ordered to return to court on March 8.
As alleged in the charges, Bailey, on Aug. 27, 2019, met with an individual whom he believed was a drug dealer. This “dealer” was actually an undercover police officer. The pair discussed transporting drugs within Queens and the defendant allegedly agreed to provide security as the cocaine was being transporting from one point in Queens to another area. For his services, Bailey allegedly agreed to a cash payment for each kilo of cocaine that was securely transported.
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Bailey allegedly agreed to provide security as the cocaine was being transporting from one point in Queens to another area.
Continuing, the DA said, on Sept. 4, 2019, Bailey met with the same “dealer” in Astoria and allegedly held a duffle bag open as three packages were placed inside. One of the packages was a kilo of cocaine and the other two were fakes. The defendant was given $2,500 and transported the bag to a parking lot in College Point, where another individual – also an undercover police officer – accepted the bag.
According to the charges the defendant again on Sept. 12, 2019, played the role of security for cash when he met with the same undercover officer in Astoria. This time, Bailey was given $10,000 cash to pick up two kilos of cocaine from a location in Maspeth. Bailey allegedly met with a second individual at the designated meeting spot and gave both the cash to the individual and retrieved two packages – one package was a kilo of cocaine and the second package was a fake.
“This defendant, who took an oath to uphold the law, is alleged to have helped protect ‘drug dealers’ and to have personally transported cocaine from various location in Queens in August and
September 2019,” Katz said. “I would like to thank the NYPD’s Internal Affairs Bureau for their hard work investigating this case.”
If convicted, Bailey faces up to 15 years in prison.
