'Cowboy cop' who planted crack under couple's car seat to boost arrest quotas escapes jail after SOBBING in court

Cowboy operator: Jason Arbeeny (pictured) from the Brooklyn South Narcotics division was convicted of planting drugs on suspects

A veteran NYPD detective framed an innocent couple by planting crack in their car during a search.

The sentencing of Detective Jason Arbeeny today is the latest development in the police corruption trail involving eight officers from the Brooklyn South Narcotics squad.



Numerous embarrassing revelations have emerged from the trial, which has exposed the seedy underbelly of drug policing in New York in which officers provided junkies with drugs in exchange for sexual acts and planted drugs on guileless victims to meet arrest quotas.



Arbeeny was convicted of ‘flaking,’ the practice of planting drugs on blameless people to reach their quota of felony collars and claim overtime, the New York Daily News reported.



He was found guilty of putting a twist of crack under a car seat in Yvelisse DeLeon and Juan Figueroa’s car during a January 2007 bust in Coney Island, New York.



The trial which ended in October 2011 left the judge shocked at the ‘cowboy culture‘ among narcotics enforcement officers .



Supreme Court Justice Gustin Reichbach was appalled at the force’s casual attitude to arresting innocents, on the assumption that the charges would probably be dismissed.

The Brooklyn South Narcotics squad came across 'as a cross between 'Training Day' and 'Prince of the City, ' he said.



According to the Daily News he said: 'Having been a judge for 20 years, I thought I was not naïve regarding the reality of narcotics enforcement. 'But even the Court was shocked, not only by the seeming pervasive scope of the misconduct, but even more distressingly by the seeming casualness by which such conduct is employed.'



The Brooklyn South Narcotics squad came across 'as a cross between 'Training Day' and 'Prince of the City'



Supreme Court Justice Gustin Reichbach





But Arbeeny who was facing up to four years behind bars, miraculously escaped jail yesterday, after bursting into tears in court.



The police detective of 14 years broke down whimpering to Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Gustin Reichbach. that he felt ashamed and ;can’t look at myself in the mirror anymore,'



Begging shamelessly, the disgraced cop said 'Sir, I am begging you, please don't send me to jail.'



The veteran detective apologized to his two dupes.



'My oath went down the window, my pride went out the window,” he said.

The victims, had asked Reichbach to send Arbeeny to jail.



Renegade force: The trial which ended in October 2011 left the judge shocked at the 'cowboy culture' among narcotics enforcement officers in the NYPD (stock photo)

Rough justice: The judge compared the Narcotics squad mindset to the movie Training Day

But the judge said his heart was softened by the defendant's stance that he had lost his pension and his health, as well as his job.



He said :'I came into court this morning determined that the nature of this crime requires some jail time,' the Daily News reported.



'I frankly didn't expect the defendant, at the 11th hour, to be making these claims.'



Arbeeny was sentenced to five years’ probation and 300 hours of community service with the proviso that hours spent warning police recruits about repeating his crimes will count double.

