Cop Drops Weed In Man's Car Before Drug Arrest: Report

BUSHWICK, BROOKLYN — A cop surreptitiously put weed in a car owned by a man she later arrested for drug possession, Gothamist reported on Friday.

An NYPD officer placed a small bottle of weed into the man's car via a window during the May 2015 stop in Bushwick, video from the incident shows.

While one of the cops said she found the weed in the pocket of the car's owner before the footage was taken, he denies the weed came from his shorts.

"Nothing came out of my pockets," the car's owner, Abdul Pullium, told Gothamist.

In 2017, a lawsuit was filed against the city and the two police officers who made the arrest—Sergeant Madho and Officer Alexander—by Pullium's friend, Chaka Virgil, who cops accused of passing drugs to Pullium during a hug. Virgil is asking for $500,000 and punitive damages as a result of what he says is a false arrest, according to Gothamist.

The drug case against the duo was dropped by a prosecutor months after the arrest.

In the 26-second smartphone video, Officer Alexander passes the small bottle containing marijuana to Sergeant Madho. Madho then takes the container from her left hand and, behind her back, transfer it to right hand, before placing the weed in the car through an open passenger seat window, the video shows.

A spokesperson for the city's Law Department told Gothamist the video is "misleading," and maintained Virgil gave weed to Pullium.

"Officers saw a drug transaction between the plaintiff and another suspect," the spokesperson, Nick Paolucci, wrote in a statement. "Drugs were found on the person of that other suspect."

"The court, in the end, will have a jury decide."