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A man who conspired with a Philadelphia police officer to steal drugs in Lower Moyamensing received a 10-month sentence last week.
According to U.S. Attorney spokeswoman Patty Hartman, the charging document stated that Robert Nagy united with an unnamed cop “to extort drugs and/or money from drug sellers.” It explains that in May 2012, the now-26-year-old arranged to buy Oxycontin from a distributor known as “L.C.” as 12th and Fitzgerald streets. Once the initialed figure arrived, the uniformed officer pulled up in his police car and claimed to have seen a drug transaction, though none had occurred.
The law enforcement worker, identified in the explanation as “C.S.,” prompted the supposed dealer to retrieve the bag of pills that the latter had dropped to the ground and pretended to arrest Nagy, driving off with him in his automobile.
This past February, authorities charged Nagy by “criminal information,” a process indicating that he would likely plead guilty, which he did in April on a conspiracy to commit extortion count. For cooperating with the government, Nagy, who could have faced 15 to 21 months in jail, received the reduced sentence, with the sentencing document ordering him to continue to interact with federal officials.
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