Cop: I did ship coke for money

It's a sad new reality for a prison-bound cop turned criminal.

NYPD officer Johnny Diaz, who transported cocaine and offered to toss cases for payoffs, wept in the front row of the arraignment courtroom on Tuesday before pleading guilty later in front of a different Manhattan Supreme Court judge.

Wearing orange Department of Correction scrubs, Diaz, 48, copped to bribe receiving, criminal possession of a controlled substance and petit larceny, and will be sentenced to six years in prison and five years of post-release supervision when he's back in court on Sept. 5.

On May 23, Diaz busted who he thought was a drug dealer — but was really an undercover cop investigating him — and stole $1,000 from $18,000 in cash he should have vouchered.

He started up a friendship with the undercover and stole back the supposed suspect's cell phone from the evidence room at the 34th Precinct station house in Inwood where Diaz was assigned.

Diaz accepted a bottle of Johnny Walker Blue Label scotch as a gift for the illicit favor.

He also offered to get the undercover's case tossed for the sum of $20,000, accepting $7,500 as a down payment, and took $4,000 to help his new buddy bring cocaine from the Bronx to W. 125th St. in Harlem on June 15.

“I can do life for this…I should know better. I'm a cop,” Diaz boasted at a nightclub before getting busted.

Diaz's family including his parents, wife and sisters were in court for his guilty plea.

“This is a good man from a good family who will now put this behind him and get on with his life,” his attorney Patrick Brackley said.