Chicago cops who took bag of cash caught in FBI sting
Two Chicago police officers, allegedly thinking they were stealing more than $5,000 in cash from a drug courier, were arrested earlier this week after it turned out they were being tracked in an undercover sting.
Sgt. Ronald Watts, 48, and Officer Kallat Mohammed, 47, were arrested Sunday night on federal charges alleging they stole $5,200 in government undercover funds on Nov. 21, 2011, from a homeless man who claimed to be a drug courier but was working as an FBI informant, reported NBCChicago.com.
The informant had a criminal record, and had been arrested by the officers before, according to a federal criminal complaint unsealed Monday. He wore a wire when he met up with them in November.
According to the complaint, Watts and Mohammed, who have worked for the Chicago Police Department for 18 and 14 years, respectively, had told the informant to alert them whenever a drug money transport was in progress. Three days before the Nov. 21 incident, in a conversation that was wiretapped, the informant told Watts where he could come pick it up, CBS2 in Chicago reported. Watts allegedly then arranged for Mohammed to intercept the money, reported CBS2.
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