NEW YORK (1010 WINS) – A former NYPD officer who was among people charged in an alleged drug trafficking ring last year was reportedly attacked at a Westchester County jail by an inmate in “retribution” for police misconduct.
The Daily News reported that ex-cop John Cicero has been held at a special unit at the Westchester County Jail since his arrest last year.
“Even in this protective custody unit, Mr. Cicero was punched in his eye socket and head by another inmate seeking to get retribution on the ‘police’ for recent high profile instances of police misconduct,” his attorney Steven Feldman wrote in a letter filed in court last month.
Feldman is reportedly looking to get Cicero released on bail over jail conditions and delays in his case caused by the pandemic, but prosecutors told a judge Cicero is dangerous and a flight risk.
Cicero resigned from the force in 2010 after pleading guilty to assaulting a handcuffed man, according to the Daily News.
Cicero and four other people were charged in White Plains Federal Court in February 2020 with distributing methamphetamine and the “liquid date-rape drug” GBL, according to a previous press release from the Department of Justice.
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