Metro

Cop allegedly traded drugs using code ‘shopping at Woodbury’

By Priscilla DeGregory and David K. Li

Nysia Stroud Steven Hirsch

An NYPD ​officer was busted Tuesday ​on charges she trafficked ​cocaine and marijuana — using ​code​ words “shopping at Woodbury” ​for her drug deliveries​ — and boasted that her badge would get her out of any trouble with law enforcement, prosecutors said.

​Police Officer ​Nysia Stroud, ​29, a six-year veteran assigned to the NYPD’s Fleet Services Division, was allegedly paid to transport drugs to another courier ​– who was actually an undercover cop, according to Manhattan DA​ Cyrus Vance Jr​.

The drug drops were allegedly made between April and June this year.

“To conceal their activities, Stroud also devised a code, `shopping at Woodbury’ to use for any communications regarding future drug deliveries,” according to ​the DA.

​She also told the undercover courier that she was a cop and boasted that she would display her NYPD badge to avoid further investigation and potential arrest if they were stopped by other members of law enforcement, teh DA said.

​Stroud appeared briefly in a Manhattan courtroom on Tuesday wearing red shorts, red sneakers, black t-shirt and a blue hoodie ​covering her head, much to the chagrin of Justice Jill Konviser.

The miffed judge asked why the handcuffed defendant had her hood up. A court officer then walked over ​and removed it from her head.

Defense lawyer Alex Grosshtern asked for Stroud’s release without bail, but Konviser ordered ​the accused dirty cop held on $500,000 bail.

At the time of the alleged sting against Stroud, she was already under internal NYPD probe in another matter ​– and thus wouldn’t have been stupid enough to deliver drugs while being watched, Grosshtern​ claimed​.

Stroud was on “modified duty” ​– stripped of her gun and normal job responsibilities while being limited to desk work ​– when the suspected drug deliveries were made, her lawyer said.

“She denies these allegations. It appears she has been under investigation because she was under modified duty,” ​said ​Grosshtern.

“She was being closely watched. She was being watched under a microscope. She knew she was in trouble. Why would she be doing this while being watched under a microscope? It’s peculiar that she would be doing something of this magnitude” while being watched Grosshtern argued.

Grosshtern didn’t disclose what the other probe of Stroud involved.