NYPD officer sentenced for stealing cops' guns
Photo credit: Jefferson Siegel | Nicholas Mina, 31, an NYPD cop from Long Island, was charged with stealing guns from his precinct house. Prosecutors told a judge he confessed that he was using them to pay off a debt to his drug dealer for oxycodone painkillers. (July 13, 2012)
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An NYPD cop from Long Island who stole and sold guns from his Ninth Precinct station house to support a prescription drug habit was sentenced to 15 1/2 years in prison Wednesday in Manhattan Supreme Court.
Nicholas Mina, 32, sat silently with his hands cuffed behind his back during the sentencing, but his attorney said Mina was driven to betray his badge by getting hooked on Vicodin and Percocet...
