Detective Arrested for Assisting in Drug Ring
By Staff Reporter of the Sun | February 1, 2008
A veteran police detective was arrested yesterday by the FBI for assisting in a drug trafficking ring in Brooklyn, officials said.
Luis Batista, who joined the force in 1997, has been charged criminally for his role in providing information and protection for a group of violent crack cocaine dealers, according to an indictment that was unsealed yesterday in federal court in Brooklyn.
Mr. Batista and two other suspects are being charged with conspiracy to distribute crack cocaine.
The probe into Mr. Batista, which began in 2006, previously led to the July arrest of an internal affairs officer, Sergeant Henry Condi, who had allegedly told Mr. Batista that he was under investigation by the department.
