New York Daily News

Susps seen with cash & pot in cell

- Thomas Tracy and John Annese

A BROOKLYN rapper’s Facebook Live video, apparently taken inside a police station, could spell trouble for the cops who were supposed to search him and his friends.

The video, posted by the rapper 22gz — real name Jeffrey Alexander (photo) — on Friday night, runs just over four minutes, from what looks like the inside of a cell in the 71st Precinct stationhou­se in Crown Heights. It shows several men crowded around the camera, waving cash and baggies of pot.The suspects were caught in a gang sweep, and should have been searched before being placed in a cell, cop sources said.

“It’s unbelievab­le,” said one source. “What if one of those guys had a small weapon, like a .22-caliber gun on them?”

NYPD spokesman Sgt. Brendan Ryan said the department is reviewing the video.

Alexander, 20, was arrested on murder charges in Miami last May, after an argument in a parking lot ended with a man shot to death. Prosecutor­s dropped the charges against him in October.

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