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hrmjustin

(71,265 posts) Tue Dec 3, 2013, 04:42 PM Dec 2013

NYPD officer arrested on extortion charges

Eyewitness News
NEW YORK (WABC) -- An NYPD officer was arrested Tuesday on charges of helping two other men exort a restaurant owner in Astoria, Queens.

34 year old officer Besnik Llakatura was taken into custody at his Staten Island home.

He was charged with extortion and brandishing a firearm in relation to extortion.

He will appear in federal court in Downtown Brooklyn Tuesday.

http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news/local/new_york&id=9347172

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