Judge drops case against NYPD officer accused of spying for China;

A Brooklyn judge on Thursday formally dismissed charges against NYPD Officer Baimadajie Angwang, granting prosecutors’ request last week to throw out the case upon the discovery of new information.

It ended a two-year ordeal for Angwang, a U.S. Army reservist and naturalized U.S. citizen born in Tibet, who spent about six months in custody before being released on a $2 million bond. He had been accused of spying on expatriate Tibetans in his Queens precinct on behalf of officials at the Chinese Consulate in the city.

Outside the federal courthouse in Brooklyn, Angwang, wearing a pin of the American flag on his lapel, thanked his family and his supporters, including those on the city’s police force and the U.S. Marine Corps, where he formerly served.

During a brief court appearance, prosecutors said they were dropping charges “in the interest of justice.” U.S. District Judge Eric Komitee tried to prompt prosecutors to share what they could about their change of mind, but they declined to reveal what new information led them to do so.

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“The decision was based on all the evidence and information developed,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Matthew Haggans told the judge, adding that some of the information was too sensitive in nature to discuss in open court. WABC reported that federal prosecutors told the judge the evidence that prompted them to move for the dismissal remains “classified.”

In Angwang’s case, the U.S. attorney’s office in Brooklyn had claimed that he began working as an agent for China in 2018 and was secretly supplying information on Tibetans pushing for their homeland’s independence from the communist government. It said he had worked to locate…