NYC CORRECTION OFFICER SENTENCED TO 3 YEARS IN PRISON FOR
ATTEMPTING TO SMUGGLE NARCOTICS TO AN IMATE AT THE RIKERS
ISLAND JAIL IN EXCHANGE FOR A CASH BRIBE
Bronx District Attorney Robert T. Johnson announced today that a former NYC Correction Officer was sentenced to 3 years in state prison following her conviction last month on charges of bribe receiving and the attempted sale of narcotics. The charges were the result of an undercover sting operation by the New York City Department of Investigation.
Tamar Peebles, 27, of Brooklyn, pled guilty to one count of Attempted Criminal Sale of a Controlled Substance in the 2nd degree, and one count of Bribe Receiving in the 3rd degree. She was sentenced by Acting State Supreme Court Justice Steven Barrett to current terms of 3 years in prison on the drug charge and one year incarceration on the bribery charge. Upon the completion of her sentence, Peebles will be subject to post release supervision for 5 years.
Peebles admitted that on January 31, 2008 she accepted a $1,500 cash payment from an undercover investigator and delivered simulated cocaine and marijuana to an inmate at the Anna M. Kross Center at the City Jail on Rikers Island. Peebles believed that the undercover investigator was a relative of the inmate. The transaction occurred at a McDonald’s Restaurant on Astoria Boulevard between 88th and 89th Streets in Queens. Peebles was in uniform at the time and on her way to work on Rikers Island.
Similar cases are still pending against six other Correction Officers who were implicated in the sting operation.
The case against Peebles was prosecuted by Senior Trial Assistant District Attorney Larry Hartstein of the Rackets Bureau.
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