When boys in blue go bad

IN THE PAST five years, federal prosecutors have charged at least 24 Philadelphia police officers - including six yesterday - with corruption.

Here are some of them:

* In July 2010, a federal judge sentenced Alhinde Weems to 15 years in prison for selling crack cocaine, plotting to rob a drug dealer's stash house and related weapons offenses.

* Mark Williams, James Venziale and Robert Snyder were convicted in a plot to steal 300 grams of heroin and resell it for cash. In May 2011, Venziale was sentenced to 3 1/2 years behind bars and Snyder to 13. In August 2011, Williams was sentenced to more than 16 years.

*  Former Inspector Daniel Castro pleaded guilty in June 2011 to conspiracy to commit extortion. Prosecutors said that Castro schemed to shake down a businessman for a $90,000 debt. A judge sentenced him to five years in prison in October 2011.

* Keith Gidelson, Joseph McIntyre and George Sambuca pleaded guilty for their role in a conspiracy to illegally distribute steroids in 2011.

* Jonathan Garcia was indicted in June 2012 for selling heroin while on duty and in full uniform, sometimes across the street from the 17th District building where he worked.

Garcia and his partner, Sydemy Joanis, later were charged with stealing nearly $4,000 from drug suspects, then filing phony paperwork to cover their tracks.

* Rafael Cordero was sentenced in June to 15 years in prison for tipping off his half brother, a drug dealer, about a federal heroin-trafficking investigation.

* A police-FBI sting caught Gerold Gibson, the son-in-law of Gov. Corbett, in January 2013 allegedly stealing bait money from a van he thought was confiscated in a drug raid.

* Robertito Fontan was charged in January with leaking information about a drug investigation to a drug informant with whom he had been romantically involved. Prosecutors allege he then made false statements to federal investigators.