{"id":283641,"date":"2026-07-01T15:10:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T15:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/283641\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T15:10:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T15:10:18","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-federal-correction-officer-sentenced-for-civil-rights-violations-firearm-offenses-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/283641\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Federal Correction Officer Sentenced For Civil Rights Violations Firearm Offenses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Former correctional officer Leon Wilson was sentenced to 200 months for depriving an individual of his constitutional rights and using a firearm during a crime of violence.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Wilson was convicted back in October 2025 on both counts of the indictment.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Back on September 4, 2023, it was reported that Wilson while on duty chased a civilian car out of the Metropolitan Detention Center.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">He chased the civilian car to the edge of the Brooklyn Bridge. It was reported that during the chase Wilson exceeded speeding limits, passed other cars and ran red lights.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Two minutes into the chase, Wilson discharged several rounds at the car. One of the bullets struck a backseat passenger in the chest and lungs.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The on-duty shooting was never reported to NYPD, the Metropolitan Detention Center or Bureau of Prisons personnel.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">\u201cLeon Wilson used the authority entrusted to him as a federal correctional officer not to protect the public, but to engage in a dangerous and unjustified pursuit that culminated in gunfire on the streets of Brooklyn,\u201d stated United States Attorney Nocella.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The case will continue being handled by the Office\u2019s Public Integrity and Human Trafficking and Civil Rights Sections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former correctional officer Leon Wilson was sentenced to 200 months for depriving an individual of his constitutional rights&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":283421,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-283641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}