MPD Officer Pleads Guilty to Felony Charge In Attempted Burglary of Apartment in Northwest Washington

Used Police Radio to Monitor Communications in Hopes of Avoiding Detection

WASHINGTON—Jennifer Green, 28, a Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) officer who had been assigned to the Fourth Police District, pleaded guilty today to a felony charge of attempted second degree burglary, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced.

Green entered her guilty plea this morning before the Honorable Robert E. Morin in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia. As part of the plea agreement, Green is resigning from the police department. Sentencing is scheduled for July 6, 2011. The defendant faces a maximum sentence of five years in prison and a fine.

Green began work in September 2005 as an MPD officer. According to information provided to the court, on March 4, 2011, she met with a cooperating witness at a nightclub in the District, where they discussed plans to steal money and drugs from an apartment known to the cooperating witness. Following their plans, the cooperating witness picked Green up the next evening, and they drove to an apartment building near Georgia Avenue and Quincy Street NW.

Green, who was off-duty, brought her police-issued radio with her, which she monitored for police communications. The cooperating witness entered the apartment building, armed with a crowbar, and indicated that he was going to break into the apartment believed to have cash and drugs. Green acted as a lookout in the car, listening to her police radio to help ensure they would avoid detection. The cooperating witness returned to the car a short while later, and stated that he had forcibly entered the apartment and stolen money and drugs from inside. The cooperating witness handed the money to the defendant. She counted the money and kept more than half of it as her share of the proceeds of the burglary. Green was arrested that evening.

In announcing today’s guilty plea, U.S. Attorney Machen commended the work of MPD’s Internal Affairs Division, which investigated the case. He also thanked the FBI’s Washington Field Office for its assistance. U.S. Attorney Machen also commended the staff of the U.S. Attorney’s Office, including Paralegal Specialist Maggie McCabe and Assistant U.S. Attorneys Jonathan Haray and Mona Sahaf, for their work prosecuting the case.