May 12, 2008 -- A Brooklyn narcotics cop with scores of arrests has prosecutors poring over those cases after he was charged with lying on an application for federal housing vouchers, The Post has learned. Antoine Mole, 38, was arrested last month and charged with grand larceny, offering a false instrument for filing and scheming to defraud - prompting the Brooklyn DA's Office to reopen dozens of drug cases in which Mole was an undercover buyer to make sure they will stand up. "Don't bother me," Mole snapped when he was approached at his Linden Boulevard apartment. Prosecutors in Brooklyn were forced last year to toss out some 200 pending cases following revelations that officers in Brooklyn South Narcotics low-balled amounts of drug seizures and used the extras to "pay" informants. They are also looking into about 20 pending gun cases after a federal judge last month called the methods of the arresting officer, Kaz Daughtry, unconstitutional "guesswork." Daughtry is still on patrol but was switched to a unit where he will make fewer arrests after the DA's Office asked the NYPD to reassign him.
"This is starting to get pretty embarrassing," said a law-enforcement source. "The department has to start looking a lot harder at who they're hiring and how they're training them . . . They're wasting everyone's time." Sources said Mole, a five-year veteran, provided false information on applications for federal Section 8 housing aid, claiming to make less than he did in order to qualify for the funds. "He denies the allegations, and he looks forward to his day in court," said Mole's lawyer, Bruce Wenger. Because Mole has some 50 arrests to his credit during his time as an undercover officer with Brooklyn North Narcotics, prosecutors are now looking at those cases - especially those not yet taken to trial. "When a police officer is arrested and charged with something, we routinely examine his cases to see if there is anything that would affect prosecution of the case that he's involved in," said DA spokesman Jerry Schmetterer. larry.celona@nypost.com
"This is starting to get pretty embarrassing," said a law-enforcement source. "The department has to start looking a lot harder at who they're hiring and how they're training them . . . They're wasting everyone's time." Sources said Mole, a five-year veteran, provided false information on applications for federal Section 8 housing aid, claiming to make less than he did in order to qualify for the funds. "He denies the allegations, and he looks forward to his day in court," said Mole's lawyer, Bruce Wenger. Because Mole has some 50 arrests to his credit during his time as an undercover officer with Brooklyn North Narcotics, prosecutors are now looking at those cases - especially those not yet taken to trial. "When a police officer is arrested and charged with something, we routinely examine his cases to see if there is anything that would affect prosecution of the case that he's involved in," said DA spokesman Jerry Schmetterer. larry.celona@nypost.com
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