A D.C. police sergeant has been relieved of her duties after the vice squad raided her home and arrested three people on drug charges.
Fourth District desk Sgt. Angela Sanders is on administrative leave, with pay, but faces discipline following a raid on her home on the 5600 block of Ninth Street Northwest, police sources said. The vice squad arrested Tommy Lee McCoy, Tiara Monique Pinckney and Anthony Thompson on Oct. 10 on the front porch of Sanders’ home, court records show.
Authorities dropped charges against Pinckney, 22, but charged Thompson, 50, and McCoy, 21, with drug possession, court records show. McCoy and Pinckney live in Sanders’ home, according to arrest records.
Sanders was home when the raid occurred, and she was brought in for an interview at Fourth District headquarters, one source said. She was ordered to turn in her badge and gun during the interview.
The vice squad had obtained a search warrant after buying drugs at the home, a source said.
Besides seizing what they claim were drugs and drug paraphernalia, police also took a loaded Ruger handgun magazine and several rounds of ammunition found in shoe boxes in the basement, court records state.
Sanders could not be reached for comment. Her commander, Hilton Burton, did not respond to requests for comment.
It’s not the only pending internal investigation in the Fourth District, sources told The Examiner. Officer Antoinette Mason also faces discipline after she reported that she had left her service pistol in her car. The car was stolen in front of her Prince George’s County home, and the weapon later turned up in the hands of a man arrested on suspicion of hijacking a car, sources said.
Mason could not be reached for comment. Police spokeswoman Traci L. Hughes declined to comment.
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