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Charges were filed against a Tulsa police officer who was recently jailed following his alleged involvement in drug trafficking.

Tyrone Jenkins, 40, is charged with two counts of receiving a bribe, a single count of attempt to deliver cocaine and two computer crime counts, according to Tulsa County District Court filings.

Jenkins, who works as a patrol officer in the Riverside Division, was arrested March 17 following a sting operation by the Tulsa Police Department that found revealed he took $3,100 in bribes.

He was booked into the Tulsa Jail on complaints of possessing a firearm during the commission of a felony, conspiring to traffic cocaine and violating the Oklahoma Computer Crimes Act, jail records show.

"The circumstances of charging a law enforcement officer who is sworn to uphold the law is disappointing on many levels," said Tulsa County District Attorney Doug Drummond. "But at the same time, whether a person is a law enforcement officer or not, he must be held accountable under the law."

Investigators accused Jenkins of receiving payments of $2,300 on March 4 and $800 on March 17 in exchange for confidential information he agreed to provide to an undercover officer, Drummond said.