GREENBELT, Md. — A former Prince
George’s County police officer has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for his
role in a conspiracy to sell untaxed cigarettes and cocaine.
Sinisa Simic, who was sentenced
Wednesday in federal court in Greenbelt, pleaded guilty in 2011 to cocaine
trafficking, extortion and firearm offenses. He admitted protecting the sale
and transport of multiple shipments of contraband cigarettes in Maryland,
Virginia and elsewhere.
The 30-year-old Woodbridge, Va.
resident was indicted in 2010 as part of a probe of corruption in the county
that brought down then-County Executive Jack Johnson, three police officers and
six others.
Simic received the longest
sentence of the officers. All were involved in a cigarette and alcohol
smuggling ring, but Simic and a co-conspirator were also selling cocaine in an
unrelated scheme.
John Geer