The steroid scandal involving several New York Police Department (NYPD) officers will likely adversely affect pending cases; prosecutors are leaning towards dismissing several cases in which defendants were busted by cops subsequently suspended for steroid use (”Runnin’ Scared: NYPD’s Busts Get Busted,” July 2).

Officer Vaughn Ettienne and Sergeant Raymond Cotton were suspended after testing positive for use of anabolic steroids believed to have been obtained from Lowen’s Pharmacy. The officers have been “poisoned” as witnesses in busts for which they were responsible.

Ettienne and Cotton would too easily become targets for the defense, says a source.In any event, cops will often become worthless as witnesses for the prosecution if they’re facing legal troubles of their own.

“My experience is that once cops get suspended, they generally don’t cooperate with us anymore” on their pending cases, the source says.

D.A. spokesman Jerry Schmetterer says the office will review other pending cases involving Ettienne, Cotton, and four other police officers suspended last November after testing positive for steroids, to determine whether those suspensions would adversely affect the cases stemming from the busts they made. … Read the rest of this entry »

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