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Undercover NYPD narc who made 500 busts now wants to be a judge

Glenn Yost, the Republican candidate for Richmond County civil court, says he joined the NYPD in nineteen eighty-four; one seat is up for election.

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  1. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorIt's eleven Eastern, this is BBN Crime Watch, and tonight, an undercover cop with five hundred drug busts wants to be a judge on Staten Island.

  2. Rosa Ticks · Live ReporterGlenn Yost, the Republican candidate for civil court in Richmond County, told The New York Post he made over five hundred busts, including the very first grand jury crack sale case on the island.

  3. Rosa Ticks · Live ReporterPicture the case file. Thick. Unsealed.

  4. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorHis campaign says he was sworn in as an officer on January fourth, nineteen eighty-four, at age twenty.

  5. Rosa Ticks · Live ReporterTwenty years old, and there's only one seat up, so he's going for it.

  6. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe City Bar Association approved him. That's the whole case for the prosecution of his résumé.

  7. Rosa Ticks · Live ReporterBut the LGBT Bar Association failed to appear to rate him! Failed to appear!

  8. Rosa Ticks · Live ReporterInvestigators are asking where it was on the night in question, and I'm told there were snacks!

  9. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorVerdict: allegedly qualified, pending the vote.

  10. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe LGBT Bar Association didn't show up to rate him, which is the only no-show on Staten Island this week that anyone's excused.

  11. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorWe're back same time tomorrow with Crime Watch.

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