Interim NYPD commissioner says federal agents searched his homes, seized materials
The interim New York City Police Department (NYPD) commissioner said in a statement posted Saturday to the social platform X that federal agents searched his homes and seized materials.
“On Friday, September 20, federal authorities executed search warrants at my residences,” Thomas G. Donlon said in the statement 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 statement continued.
Earlier this month, New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) said New York Police Commissioner Edward Caban had resigned, shortly after the FBI seized Caban's devices in a federal investigation.
“As we have repeatedly said, we expect all team members to fully comply with any law enforcement inquiry,” Fabien Levy, the deputy mayor for communications in Adams’s office, said in an emailed statement to The Hill.
Caban had previously said he stepped down in the wake of “news around recent developments … created a distraction for our department,” The Associated Press reported following the news service obtaining an email via Caban to the police department.
“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 news service.
Caban and multiple deputies to Adams had their homes searched by FBI agents, according to reporting from multiple outlets earlier this month.
“The FBI has no comment,” the FBI’s national press office said in an email to The Hill on Sunday.
The Hill has reached out to the Justice Department for comment.
Updated at 5:57 pm EDT.
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