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Police officer, security officials arrested in sting

Healthcare Security Weekly, January 21, 2008

Sixty people, including a police officer, a security director for an area hospital, a school security officer, and a city building inspector, were arrested January 17 as pat of a chop shop sting operation in Queens, NY, CBS 2 HD and WCBS-TV New York reported.

The shop was allegedly run by undercover police officers, the television station reported. Those arrested are accused of using a middle man, taking their cars to the chop shop, and then filing false insurance claims that their cars were stolen. However, the chop shop was part of an undercover sting operation run by the New York Police Department and Queens District Attorney's office, the station reported.

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