NYPD officer gets 18 years for armed robberies while on duty
A Brooklyn federal judge last week sentenced a police officer to 18 years behind bars for committing a series of armed robberies and attempted armed robberies — including some while in uniform — as well as conspiring to distribute cocaine and heroin.
Officer Jose Tejada, assigned to the 28th Precinct in Harlem, was convicted in November 2013 of two counts of obstruction of justice and in June 2014 on the drug-related charges. The evidence presented at the two trials showed that Tejada participated in multiple armed robberies and attempted robberies, which netted thousands of dollars in cash and multiple kilograms of cocaine.
Tejada was a 17-year veteran of the NYPD who, at the time of the criminal conduct, was assigned to the 28th Precinct in Harlem. This prosecution arose out of Tejada’s commission of multiple robberies and attempted robberies in Queens, Manhattan and the Bronx in 2006 and 2007, some of which he committed while on duty, in uniform and using an NYPD undercover vehicle.