Former NYPD officer from Harriman gets 90-month prison sentence
A former NYPD officer from Harriman was sentenced to 90 months after prosecutors said he turned police authority into protection for a drug ring.
A Harriman resident and former New York City police officer was sentenced to 90 months in federal prison after admitting he used his badge, credentials and department property to help protect a drug trafficking enterprise.
Andrew Nguyen, 41, was sentenced June 24 by U.S. District Judge Analisa Torres and will also serve three years of supervised release. Federal prosecutors said the case was not a brief lapse but a sustained scheme that ran for about three years, from at least 2020 through at least November 2023, and that Nguyen repeatedly abused his position while serving in the NYPD.
According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, Nguyen accepted more than $30,000 in bribes and solicited tens of thousands more in additional payments. Prosecutors said he knew the person he was assisting was trafficking heroin, cocaine and marijuana, and that he helped make the operation safer and more effective by using his status as a police officer. They said he transported approximately eight kilograms of cocaine while armed with an NYPD-authorized off-duty firearm, and carried NYPD credentials and an NYPD parking placard that he planned to use to avoid arrest if stopped by police.
The office also said Nguyen used an NYPD police car and equipment to conduct and document a fake car stop and seizure. He pleaded guilty on Jan. 29 to conspiring to solicit and receive bribes, conspiring to distribute narcotics and possessing a firearm in connection with the narcotics conspiracy. The indictment was unsealed Nov. 4, 2025, and Nguyen was arrested that morning.
The case carries a local sting in Orange County because Harriman is a small village of 2,714 people, and the Southern District of New York includes Orange County along with the rest of the Hudson Valley counties it serves. Prosecutors and NYPD leaders framed the conduct as a direct betrayal of public trust, saying the former officer’s actions endangered the communities he was sworn to protect and the fellow officers who relied on his integrity.
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