The interim New York Metropolis Police Division (NYPD) commissioner stated in an announcement posted Saturday to the social platform X that federal brokers searched his properties and seized supplies.
“On Friday, September 20, federal authorities executed search warrants at my residences,” Thomas G. Donlon stated within the assertion posted to the NYPD’s X account. “They took materials that came into my possession approximately 20 years ago and are unrelated to my work with the New York City Police Department.”
“This is not a department matter, and the department will not be commenting,” the assertion continued.
Earlier this month, New York Metropolis Mayor Eric Adams (D) stated New York Police Commissioner Edward Caban had resigned, shortly after the FBI seized Caban’s gadgets in a federal investigation.
Caban had beforehand stated he stepped down within the wake of “news around recent developments … created a distraction for our department,” The Related Press reported following the information service acquiring an electronic mail through Caban to the police division.
“I am unwilling to let my attention be on anything other than our important work, or the safety of the men and women of the NYPD,” he wrote, per the information service.
Caban and a number of deputies to Adams had their properties searched by FBI brokers, in line with reporting from a number of retailers earlier this month.
The Hill has reached out to Adams’s press workplace, the FBI and the Justice Division for remark.
