A former officer from the 40th Precinct, Brian McGuckin, pled guilty to grand larceny in Bronx Supreme Court on Tuesday for his role in a widespread ticket-fixing scheme cops ran out of the Alexander Avenue station house before investigators busted it in 2011.
McKuckin, 47, got no jail time after pleading to the felony charge, but the 20-year NYPD veteran will forfeit $12,000 a year in pension eligibility. McGuckin handed in his badge on Monday.
Like most of the other officers implicated in the scheme, McGuckin was a delegate of the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association. The probe by NYPD’s internal affairs bureau has led to criminal charges against 21 officers it says fixed parking and moving violation tickets, criminal and other summonses, for friends and family.
In all, a Grand Jury had charged McGuckin with 21 separate incidents of making up phony information on some tickets and getting rid of parking and moving summonses, to allowing specific violators to avoid punishment.
The lid on the corruption scheme was blown off in 2011, when an anonymous tip from inside the department put the finger on an officer from the 40th Precinct, Jose Ramos, accusing him of ticket-fixing, selling counterfeit CDs and DVDs, and conspiring to kill a witness against him, according to the NYPD. Earlier this year, Ramos pled guilty to the charges and was sentenced to 15-1/2 to 23-1/2 years of jail time
Supreme Court Justice Steven Barrett denied Bronx D.A. Robert Johnson’s request to sentence McGuckin to 1,500 hours of community service, instead granting him a conditional discharge. McGuckin will serve no jail time as long as he stays clean for the next three years.
Jury selection will begin on June 17 in the case of another officer charged in the scandal, Christopher Manzi, formerly of the 41st Precinct in Hunts Point and a Police Benevolent Association delegate.
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