Brooklyn DA to investigate alleged NYPD gun planting scheme
Defendant Files Civil Suit Claiming ‘Set-Up’
In a federal suit against the city for an unspecified damage award, a Brooklyn resident claims that NYPD detectives violated his constitutional rights when they planted gun evidence and falsely charged him with criminal possession of a firearm. The Brooklyn district attorney’s office announced it is looking into the allegations.
Jeffery Herring asserts that Brooklyn detectives played a game of fast and loose when, in the summer of 2013, the officers wrongly accused him of illegally possessing a firearm.
According to the complaint filed in Brooklyn federal court on Monday, this is not a one-off incident, but rather part of a pattern of misbehavior.