Feds accuse NYPD detective of conspiring with drug dealers
By TOM HAYS
Associated Press Writer
In the latest case, internal affairs and federal investigators say they unearthed evidence that Batista was part of a drug-dealing operation run by old friends. His attorney, James Moschella, admitted his client knew the dealers and sometimes used them as informants, but said he never committed crimes with them.
On Wednesday, Detective Wayne Taylor and a woman accused of working as his partner pleaded not guilty in Queens to kidnapping, promoting prostitution, assault and endangering the welfare of a child. Prosecutors allege the pair took their 13-year-old victim to parties throughout the city, where about 20 men paid to have sex with her before she escaped to her family.
A third ongoing corruption case in Brooklyn so far has resulted in four officers being arrested, others suspended and their superiors stripped of their commands. The investigation was launched last year after an undercover detective mistakenly revealed on a recording that he and another officer had forged paperwork about a drug arrest, saying that 17 bags of cocaine were seized instead of the real total, 28.
Internal affairs investigators say they later learned that after a seizure of 40 bags of cocaine and $250 in November, two other officers stole two bags and $40 to give to an informant as a reward.
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