Drug task force members from State Police, NYPD face scrutiny.
RED HOOK — On a frigid Sunday night in February, an unmarked SUV
assigned to a federal drug task force struck a utility pole before
veering off an isolated stretch of Route 9G on the northern edge of
Dutchess County.
Francis Stabile III, a State Police senior
investigator assigned to the task force, was alone in the vehicle and
emerged from the wreckage unharmed but a little wobbly, according to a
witness.
It’s unlikely that Stabile could have known at the time that his
crash would trigger a broader investigation — of him as well as the
other state troopers assigned to the DEA’s 150-member, Manhattan-based
Drug Enforcement Task Force.
The ongoing investigation, which had been
kept secret by the State Police, is examining the time and attendance
records as well as the work habits of the task force’s members from the
State Police, according to sources briefed on the investigation.
Recently, those sources said, the New York Police Department also began
examining those same issues for its officers assigned to the task force.
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Source: TimesUnion.com (via Empire Report New York)
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