By Allan Lengel
ticklethewire.com
Two Chicago cops find themselves on the wrong side of the law.
The feds in Chicago on Monday announced that they had charged Sgt. Ronald Watts and officer Kallatt Mohammed with stealing $5,200 from someone they thought was transporting money for drug dealers, but who was actually an informant working for the FBI.
Both cops were assigned to a 2nd District tactical team.
Watts, 48, is an 18-year police veteran and Mohammed, 47, who joined the department 14 years ago.
Authorities said that last Nov. 21, a cooperating witness for the FBI told the cops about transporting the drug money.
Agents on surveillance video-recorded the alleged theft, which occurred when Mohammed, driving his personal auto, approached the informant in the 2700 block of South Vernon and took a bag containing $5,200 from the informant, authorities said.
Later, authorities alleged, the officers paid the informant $400 for allowing them to steal the drug proceeds.
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