NEW YORK CITY POLICE OFFICER RESIGNS AND PLEADS GUILTY TO PETIT LARCENY AND OFFICIAL MISCONDUCT IN CONNECTION WITH THE ARREST OF A DRUG SUSPECT

Bronx District Attorney Robert T. Johnson announced today that a former New York City police officer was convicted of Petit Larceny and Official Misconduct in connection with the arrest of a man on drug charges.

Kendall Currie, 35, of the Bronx, pled guilty before Criminal Court Judge Harold Adler and was sentenced to a conditional discharge. Currie resigned from the New York City Police Department at the end of his shift on Tuesday, April 6, 2004 and surrendered to NYPD Internal Affairs Detectives on Wednesday morning April 7, 2004. Currie’s immediate resignation was a condition of the plea agreement. He was appointed a New York City Police Officer on September 15, 2000.

Currie admitted that on January 15, 2003 he stole "approximately 13 clear plastic bags of a white powder like substance alleged to be heroin, owned by the City of New York." He also admitted that he neither turned in the materials to the property clerk, nor submitted paperwork for the property, which was taken from a suspect who had been arrested on a narcotics offense. A voucher that was submitted indicated that only one plastic bag had been confiscated from the defendant.

The crimes, both Class A misdemeanor offenses, occurred at the NYPD’s PSA 8 headquarters at 2794 Randall Avenue. Currie, who was assigned there at the time of the incident, was later placed on modified assignment during the course of the investigation by the Internal Affairs Bureau.

The case was prosecuted by Assistant District Attorney Dennis Consumano of the Rackets Bureau.