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Federal judge dismisses indictment against auxiliary cop charged with hacking into NYPD database

Posted on November 19, 2015 by Dissent

John Marzulli reports:

A federal judge tossed an indictment Wednesday against an NYPD auxiliary cop charged with hacking into a police computer in Brooklyn to obtain traffic accident information, the Daily News has learned.

Yehuda Katz is off the hook on computer fraud charges after prosecutors acknowledged the government recently became aware of information “suggesting that Katz did not commit the charged crime” at the 70th Precinct stationhouse, papers filed in Brooklyn Federal Court said.

Read more on New York Daily News.

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