A veteran Toronto Police Service officer is facing a bribery charge after he allegedly supplied a suspect in a drug investigation with confidential information in exchange for money.
Bryan Correia, a 21-year veteran, was suspended with pay three years ago after he was charged in October 2018 with breach of trust and criminal counselling. Those charges were stayed back on Dec. 6, 2018.
Correia has remained off work and, on Friday, was arrested again and charged with breach of trust and agreeing to accept a bribe.
He faces multiple Police Service Act charges as well, a Toronto Police news release says.
It’s alleged that in the fall of 2018, while working with the force’s organized crime enforcement unit, he was communicating, via a messaging app and telephone, with a man who was an alleged suspect in a York Regional Police drug investigation.
“The man offered the officer a sum of money to provide confidential police information,” which, police say, Correia provided, according to a news release put out by TPS Professional Standards Unit.
He is scheduled to appear in court next month.
“Detective Constable Bryan Correia will vigorously defend (himself) against these allegations,” Toronto defence lawyer Joanne Mulcahy wrote in an email.
Also, this week Toronto police arrested and charged Gordon Broadhead, 41, with breach of trust and offer bribery. It’s alleged Broadhead is the man who bribed the police veteran to obtain secret police information.
Broadhead’s name came up during the trial of York Regional Police officer Richard Senior who was convicted of corrupt practices earlier this year. In her judgment convicting Senior, Superior Court Justice Vanessa Christie said that Broadhead was previously a friend of Senior’s, but that the friendship had ceased.
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