NYPD detective charged with perjury for falsely testifying about drug arrest
NEW YORK - A New York City Police Department (NYPD) Detective was indicted for committing perjury by testifying before a grand jury in the case of a man accused of selling narcotics in East Harlem, and subsequently changing the details and facts of his sworn testimony during a suppression hearing. Abel Joseph, 39, of the Bronx, is charged in New York State Supreme Court with two counts of perjury in the first degree, a felony.
“Perjury in official proceedings is intolerable,” said District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. “This detective wasted the time and resources of prosecutors, the court, and a grand jury, and the actions for which he stands accused led to a criminal case being dismissed in its entirety.”
According to the indictment and statements made on the record in court, Joseph, a narcotics detective, arrested a man in 2010 for selling phencyclidine (“PCP”) in East Harlem. In conversations with an assistant district attorney, Joseph claimed that he and his field team searched for the buyers and were unable to find and apprehend them, and testified before a grand jury in August 2010 to that effect. He additionally testified that he never lost sight of the accused seller.
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