{"id":1273,"date":"2006-07-10T00:19:26","date_gmt":"2006-07-10T08:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/07\/now_why_would_you_go_and_do_that.html"},"modified":"2006-07-10T00:19:26","modified_gmt":"2006-07-10T08:19:26","slug":"now_why_would_y","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/07\/now_why_would_y.html","title":{"rendered":"Now Why Would You Go And Do That?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Bronx cop gets busted for buying weed &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/news\/regionalnews\/cops_bust_officer_as_pothead_regionalnews_steve_strunsky___and_perry_chiaramonte.htm\">in his own precinct<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>A Bronx cop assigned to the &#8220;buy-and-bust&#8221; division was nabbed for scoring marijuana in the same precinct he was assigned to protect, the NYPD said.<\/p>\n<p>Ten-year veteran officer, Milton Smith, 44, was arrested at 4 a.m. at University Avenue and West 179th Street for buying an unspecified amount of dope &#8212; within the boudaries of the 46th Precinct where the officer was assigned to catch dealers in sting operations, according to his wife, Dahlia.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He was in the &#8216;buy-and-bust&#8217; division or that&#8217;s what he told me,&#8221; the shocked woman told The Post. &#8220;It&#8217;s really unbelievable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Although they are separated, Dahlia said Smith is a &#8220;devoted father&#8221; to their son and &#8220;loves his job.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I can&#8217;t believe he&#8217;d be capable of something like that,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>Smith, who was off-duty at the time, was charged with criminal possession of marijuana and official misconduct. He has been suspended without pay and was released without bail last night.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Bronx cop gets busted for buying weed &#8212; in his own precinct: A Bronx cop assigned to the &#8220;buy-and-bust&#8221; division was nabbed for scoring marijuana in the same precinct he was assigned to protect, the NYPD said. Ten-year veteran officer, Milton Smith, 44, was arrested at 4 a.m. at University Avenue and West 179th [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,11,48,26,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-followed_by_a_perplexed_stroke_of_the_chin","category-law_order","category-sniff_snort_and_chortle","category-tragicomic_ironic_obnoxious_or_absurd","category-youre_kidding_right"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}