MANHATTAN — An exam monitor for the city's municipal tests was arrested for selling heroin and cocaine to an undercover NYPD officer near a school Tuesday, police said.
Benjamin Henderson, 50, who works for the Department of Citywide Administrative Services, sold the drugs to the undercover officer outside 2187 Eighth Ave., a block from both Hugo Newman College Preparatory School and the New York French American Charter School, about 7:25 p.m., an NYPD spokesman said.
Henderson was arrested for criminal sale of a controlled substance, police said.
He's been arrested several times dating back to 1982, police said. He was arrested most recently for marijuana possession in 2004, police said.
"Henderson has served as an exam monitor on an 'as-needed' basis and as such, does not have full-time employment with DCAS," said a spokeswoman for the agency, Cathy Hanson.
"Going forward, we will no longer be using his services," she added.
