NEW YORK — An NYPD patrolman has been charged with feeding confidential information to a drug dealer.
Devon Daniels was arrested on Tuesday morning. A federal judge in Brooklyn released him on $150,000 bond.
They say that in one text, Daniels told the dealer that he did a warrant check on the dealer's name and that "nothing showed up" and everything was clean.
The 30-year-old Daniels was represented by his lawyer sister. She had no comment.
A criminal complaint accuses Daniels of using a law enforcement database to run license plate numbers and check for outstanding arrest warrants as favors to a violent drug trafficker.
Prosecutors say the evidence against Daniels includes text messages between the two men from 2010 and 2011.
They say that in one text, Daniels told the dealer that he did a warrant check on the dealer's name and that "nothing showed up" and everything was clean.