{"id":159,"date":"2005-03-04T10:11:01","date_gmt":"2005-03-04T18:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2005\/03\/12_years_for_crappy_coach_fakes.html"},"modified":"2005-03-04T10:11:01","modified_gmt":"2005-03-04T18:11:01","slug":"12_years_for_cr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/03\/12_years_for_cr.html","title":{"rendered":"12 Years For Crappy Coach Fakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Post <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/news\/regionalnews\/41799.htm\">reports on the arraignment of four police officers<\/a> who were arrested for accepting bribes &#8212; in the form of counterfeit Coach bags and sports jerseys &#8212; in return for going easy on street vendors:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The officers, all from the 13th Precinct, turned themselves in yesterday to face charges \u00e2\u20ac\u201d including receiving bribes \u00e2\u20ac\u201d that could land them in prison for 12 years each.<\/p>\n<p>All four \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Detectives Rodney Lewis and Brian Bartlett and Officers George Santiago and Jaime Albertelli \u00e2\u20ac\u201d pleaded not guilty at their arraignment last night. They were released without bail.<\/p>\n<p>The cops allegedly accepted bogus Coach bags and sports jerseys as kickbacks from a street vendor who sold counterfeit merchandise around Broadway and 27th Street.<\/p>\n<p>A fifth cop, Jashua Penalo, 32, was arrested earlier in the week.<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>The peddler at the center of the probe, Jamil Faied, 44, was charged with bribery.<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>In exchange for the bogus goods, Faied allegedly got favors for himself and his peddler friends.<\/p>\n<p>Penalo tipped him off when search warrants were issued so he could hide his illegal wares, authorities say.<\/p>\n<p>Bartlett and Lewis are accused of handing out a desk-appearance ticket to another vendor instead of making an arrest, because Faied asked them to do so.<\/p>\n<p>Santiago and Albertelli made a competitor of Faied relocate, authorities said.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Are they nuts?  <em>Fake Coach bags<\/em>?  Why bother?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Post reports on the arraignment of four police officers who were arrested for accepting bribes &#8212; in the form of counterfeit Coach bags and sports jerseys &#8212; in return for going easy on street vendors: The officers, all from the 13th Precinct, turned themselves in yesterday to face charges \u00e2\u20ac\u201d including receiving bribes \u00e2\u20ac\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law_order"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159","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=159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}