A veteran New York City police officer has been arrested on charges that he plotted to steal hundreds of thousands of dollars believed to be hidden in an apartment where a drug dealer once lived.
The officer, Shawn Jenkins, faces federal robbery charges.
Prosecutors said that Officer Jenkins was recorded by an informant talking about a scheme to subdue the current tenant of an Upper Manhattan apartment and retrieve $900,000 that was rumored to have been hidden under the floor.
Police officers and federal agents were waiting to arrest the officer on Tuesday night when, they said, he arrived there.
The tenant told the authorities that burglars have repeatedly been attracted to the home since a cocaine dealer who previously lived there was arrested.
Last year, someone ripped up the floorboards while the tenant was on vacation.
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