The Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office is expected to announce charges against a high-ranking official with the city’s Citizens Police Oversight Commission.
The announcement will be made at 2 p.m. on Tuesday by members of the District Attorney’s Office and its Gun Violence Task Force. You can watch the press conference live on NBC10 in the streaming player above.
Assistant District Attorneys William Fritze and Joseph Lanuti are expected to participate, along with Mariel Delacruz, director of the office’s Victim Services Unit, and Dennis Whitaker, a victim witness coordinator.
The District Attorney’s Office has not yet disclosed the official’s identity or the nature of the charges.
However, NBC10’s news-gathering partner KYW Newsradio reports that Hassan Bennett, 43, chair of the Philadelphia Citizens Police Oversight Commission, was arrested Tuesday morning on bribery charges. NBC10 also confirmed Bennett was arrested Tuesday morning and charged with bribery and intimidation, according to paperwork provided by a law enforcement source.
Bennett is accused of selling confidential information he obtained through his work as a bail navigator at the Defender Association of Philadelphia, according to sources cited by KYW Newsradio.
Prior to joining the Oversight Commission, Bennett was previously convicted of murder and served 11 years in prison before being acquitted in 2019.
