Corey Pegues, one of the highest ranking black executives in the NYPD, wearing his police uniform with many insignia and badges to indicate his seniority. his hair is braided and he looks up slightly toward the photographer while standing at a desk inside his precinct.
A Cops and Robbers Story
Still from A Cops and Robbers Story
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Ilinca Calugareanu

Corey Pegues, one of the highest ranking black executives in the NYPD, reveals a few months after retirement that before joining the NYPD he worked the streets dealing crack cocaine for one of the most notorious drug gangs in the US, the Supreme Team. To many he is either a perp in cop costume or a criminal turned hero. But who is the real Corey Pegues?

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Production still of Chuck Norris vs. Communism. Ilinca Calugareanu is looking through the director’s viewfinder and is leaning over a stairwell. To her left, there is a bearded man standing on the stairs above her.
Ilinca Calugareanu
Production still from Chuck Norris vs. Communism
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