Vera
WHITE PLAINS – A former Yonkers Police Department Narcotics Unit
police officer was sentenced in Westchester County Court on Thursday to
six months of weekends at the county jail on his April 23 guilty plea
to felony perjury and two misdemeanor counts of official misconduct.
On March 21, 2014, Neil Vera, 35, while a member of the police department,
acted with another man, Christian Koch, 39, of Yonkers, who was charged
with felony perjury and misdemeanor official misconduct for falsely swearing
and making a false statement in an application for a search warrant for
an apartment in that city. The false statement was made with intent to
mislead a Yonkers City Court judge in the performance of his official
functions signing the warrant.
On May 20, 2014, Vera asked a person identified to the grand jury to lie
to investigators and provide a false written statement to police officers
of the internal affairs division.
He asked the individual to make a false statement identifying himself
as an individual who had performed controlled narcotics buys at the address
in support of the search warrant, when that was not the case.
The defendants surrendered to the Yonkers Police Internal Affairs Division.
Koch also pled guilty on April 23 and will be sentenced in September.
