Cops fail to find loaded gun on suspect
By John Marzulli
Daily News Staff Writer

Thursday, May 1st 2008, 4:00 AM

They're not the sharpest cops, and lucky for them the perp was even dumber.

Cops failed to find a loaded gun stashed in the pants of a suspect arrested for farebeating at a Brooklyn subway station, the Daily News has learned.

The whole time Trevis Jeffery sat in a precinct holding cell, he was armed with a 9-mm. semiautomatic handgun, according to a criminal complaint filed in Brooklyn Federal Court.

At some point, Jeffery asked to use the bathroom in the stationhouse and only after he came out of the bathroom did one of the arresting cops "pat down the defendant again," according to the complaint. That's when the cop found the gun.

A police source said two plainclothes cops who arrested Jeffery in the subway face discipline for endangering everyone in the 83rd Precinct stationhouse.

"They're lucky they weren't killed," said another police source.

The plainclothes officers, assigned to the NYPD Transit Task Force, failed to find the weapon during a patdown at the Wilson Ave. subway station, court papers say.

The complaint does not say whether the cops conducted a more thorough search of the suspect immediately after arriving at the stationhouse as required under NYPD regulations.

Jeffery, 18, was spotted by cops using a student MetroCard on April 24 when school was closed. He couldn't produce identification, so cops arrested him.

"One of the officers briefly patted down the defendant, following which the officers took the defendant to the precinct and put him in a cell," according to the complaint.

Jeffery is being prosecuted by the feds because he's a convicted felon accused of possessing an illegal handgun.

I refuse, ya boy Jeffery should have...nevermind.