Ex-Correction Officer Gets 3 Yr. Jail Term For 'Drug' Sale to Con

A Bronx judge May 20 sentenced a former Correction Officer to three years in prison after her conviction last month for receiving a bribe and the attempted sale of narcotics.

Tamar Peebles, 27, of Brooklyn, pled guilty to one count of Attempted Criminal Sale of a Controlled Substance in the 2nd degree, and one count of Bribe Receiving in the 3rd degree.

Acting State Supreme Court Justice Steven Barrett sentenced her to concurrent terms of three years in prison on the drug charge and one year on the bribery charge. Upon the completion of her sentence, she will be subject to post-release supervision for 5 years.

Delivered Pseudo-Drugs

Ms. Peebles admitted that on Jan. 31, 2008, she accepted a $1,500 cash payment from an undercover investigator and delivered simulated cocaine and marijuana to an inmate at the Anna M. Kross Center on Rikers Island. She believed that the undercover investigator was a relative of the inmate. Ms. Peebles, who was in uniform and on her way to work on Rikers Island, completed the transaction at a McDonald's on Astoria Boulevard in Queens.

The charges were the result of an undercover sting operation by the city Department of Investigation. Similar cases are still pending against six other Correction Officers who were implicated in the sting operation.

Senior trial Assistant District Attorney Larry Hartstein of the Rackets Bureau prosecuted the case against Ms. Peebles. T.H.