https://blogs.lotterypost.com/truesee/2011/4/police-officer-pleads-guilty-to-robbing-drug.htm truesee's Blog: Police Officer pleads guilty to robbing drug dealers en-us Lottery Post RSS Generator https://blogs.lotterypost.com/truesee/2011/4/police-officer-pleads-guilty-to-robbing-drug.htm#c61961 https://blogs.lotterypost.com/truesee/2011/4/police-officer-pleads-guilty-to-robbing-drug.htm#c61961 Tue, 26 Apr 2011 22:14:52 GMT time*treat A crooked cop? On the NYPD, too. NO WAY!!

]]> time*treat https://blogs.lotterypost.com/truesee/2011/4/police-officer-pleads-guilty-to-robbing-drug.htm#c61947 https://blogs.lotterypost.com/truesee/2011/4/police-officer-pleads-guilty-to-robbing-drug.htm#c61947 Tue, 26 Apr 2011 16:14:49 GMT truecritic It's too bad that he (and the "crew") didn't use their talents for good...they probably could have sent a lot of drug dealers to prison.

]]> truecritic https://blogs.lotterypost.com/truesee/2011/4/police-officer-pleads-guilty-to-robbing-drug.htm https://blogs.lotterypost.com/truesee/2011/4/police-officer-pleads-guilty-to-robbing-drug.htm Tue, 26 Apr 2011 14:11:25 GMT truesee Disgraced cop Emmanuel Tavarez pleads guilty to robbing drug dealers; faces 30 years in prison

John Marzulli

DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

Monday, April 25th 2011, 6:40 PM

Emmanuel Tavarez faces 30 years in prison for robbing drug dealers.

A disgraced NYPD cop is facing more than 30 years in prison after pleading guilty Monday to being a member of a crew that robbed drug dealers of dope and cash.

Emmanuel Tavarez's wife wept in the courtroom as the 8-year-veteran of the force admitted he sold out his badge.

I participated in the robberies of drug dealers, Tavarez said. I was a lookout.

Tavarez, 31, copped to the crimes that could put him away until he's a senior citizen on the eve of jury selection for his trial in Brooklyn Federal Court.

Defense lawyer Raymond Colon said Tavarez made the decision based on the crushing weight of the evidence. The cop has no plea deal with the government.

It's a tragic situation for the Tavarez family, Colon told The Daily News. This was a young man with a lot of promise.

Tavarez was a promising professional baseball prospect before he joined the NYPD. When he was arrested last May he was only days away from being approved for a tax-free pension for a line-of-duty injury that would have been worth well over $1 million over his lifetime.

But the cop's greed led him to associate with criminals who used Tavarez's status as a cop to carry out the armed robberies. The stolen drugs were later sold and the profits split.

Tavarez said he personally participated in stickups in Connecticut and Long Island.

Prosecutors said Tavarez used his badge to falsify search warrants, provided NYPD raid jackets and other paraphrenalia to the crew and restrained one victim with handcuffs.

Tavarez denied that he loaned his service gun to a crew member.

He faces 30 to 40 years in prison when he's sentenced in July by Federal Judge Sandra Townes.

Members of the NYPD Internal Affairs Bureau informed the lawyer that Tavarez was terminated from the force as a result of his guilty plea.

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