Sentences with phrase «gun license permits»
Alex Lichtenstein is accused of bribing NYPD officers for gun license permits, prosecutors said.
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Also Monday, the feds arrested Sgt. David Villanueva and Officer Richard Ochetal of the NYPD License Division for allegedly taking cash bribes from Brooklyn businessman, Alex Lichtenstein, who wanted gun permits for undeserving applicants paying him as much as $ 18,000 each.
«There's great concern in that very sensitive division that individuals had inappropriate connectivity into that division and circumvented some of the extraordinary safeguards we've built in to ensure only appropriate people get gun licenses and gun permits,» Bratton said.
Crooked gun license broker Shaya Lichtenstein's access to police was so good that his applicants didn't even have to come to headquarters for a mandated interview before they got their permits, the Daily News has learned.
She said Castile told the officer he had a permit to carry a gun, had one on him and was reaching for his driver's license and registration.
The NYPD has revoked the gun carry permits of more than two dozen people who got them through a shady middleman indicted for bribing NYPD cops working in the department's Licensing Division, sources tell the NY Post.
At the same time Lichtenstein was allegedly bribing officers in Brooklyn's gun - licensing division, two NYPD cops abruptly retired from the unit to start a business helping people get pistol permits.
Two other officers who worked in the License Division have also been charged by the feds with taking bribes to hand out gun permits to unqualified applicants.
Two other officers from the NYPD License Division have also been stripped of their guns and badges during the probe for allegedly taking bribes from a Borough Park - based businessman, who was arrested for allegedly arranging gun permits for friends and clients for up to $ 18,000 each.
Eight other officers — the majority are high - ranking officials — have been disciplined so far in the growing scandal, including a sergeant and an officer in the NYPD License Division who are suspected of taking money in exchange for helping applicants obtain gun permits.
The importance of this statutory prohibition in the SAFE Act is to allow gun permit holders and applicants for licenses to have a fair opportunity to request an exemption from the release of their names and addresses from the application before it becomes a public record.
The FBI is looking into two NYPD cops who abruptly retired from the gun - licensing division to start a business helping people get pistol permits — at the same time a...
The court suppressed the gun and the vest, holding that there was no probable cause to arrest the driver, Ayala, based either on the fact that he was allegedly texting while driving, or on the arresting officer's «mistake» in concluding that he had only a learner's permit, rather than a full - blown driver's license.