Members of the NYPD and the FBI searched several homes of current and former NYPD officials as part of a criminal investigation, according to Commissioner Jessica Tisch and a source familiar with the probe.
The joint investigation, by the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York and NYPD’s Internal Affairs Bureau, is looking into bribery allegations that involve Jeffrey Maddrey, the former NYPD Chief of Department under Mayor Eric Adams, a source familiar with the investigation confirmed to The City Reporter.
The operation targeted the homes of Former Deputy Commissioner Tarik Sheppard and James McCarthy, the current commanding officer of Manhattan South, in addition to several others, the source said.
Sheppard, who opened a security firm with former Chief of Department John Chell after leaving the NYPD, didn’t return a request for comment right away. McCarthy couldn’t be reached for comment right away.
The New York Post and NBC 4 first reported on the raids of the top current and former NYPD officials.
Separately, federal agents raided Maddrey’s house Wednesday morning and seized his phone and other devices, a source familiar with the operation said. Federal agents had previously raided Maddrey’s home in January of 2025, and Commissioner Tisch, who had been appointed by Adams in November of 2024, announced his suspension without pay.
At the time of the raid, he had already announced his resignation, following allegations from a subordinate that he coerced her into sexual favors in exchange for overtime pay.
Maddrey, a close ally of Adams, had been promoted to chief of department, the city’s highest ranking uniformed official, by then Commissioner Keechant Sewell in 2022, despite an Internal Affairs investigation into an altercation with another subordinate he was having a relationship with, who alleged he’d assaulted her in a Queens park.
In another incident covered extensively by The City Reporter, Maddrey intervened on the behalf of a retired cop who had chased a group of teenagers with a gun in Brownsville in 2022, orchestrating his release. Maddrey was later found to have abused his authority by the Civilian Complaint Review Board.
Maddrey’s attorney didn’t return a request for comment right away.
A spokesperson for the NYPD declined a request for additional comment on the raids and pointed to the Commissioner’s remarks on social media.
Nicholas Biase, a spokesperson for the Southern District of New York, declined to return a request for comment. A spokesperson for the FBI didn’t return a request for comment right away.
Asked about the raids at an unrelated press conference Wednesday morning, Mayor Zohran Mamdani said Commissioner Tisch “has already shown a real commitment to cracking down on corruption and ensuring that the public servants in the NYPD are held to the highest standards.”
“I’m confident that she will lead us through this process,” he said.
The raids came the same day as the arrest of Frank Carone, another close ally to former Mayor Adams who served as his chief of staff before leaving to start a lobbying firm. That probe — which comes out of a separate U.S. Attorney’s Office in New York’s Eastern District — is not thought to be related.
“When I became Police Commissioner, I promised New Yorkers that under my leadership the NYPD would conduct itself with integrity and that there would be a thorough investigation of any claim that members of service failed to meet that standard,” NYPD Commissioner said on X. “This investigation and our actions this morning are part of the ongoing effort to fulfill that commitment and hold the Department to its highest ideals.”
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