Philadelphia police are conducting an internal investigation into the conduct of three narcotics strike force officers who prosecutors say gave false testimony in court. Read more Tom Gralish / Staff Photographer

by Ellie Rushing Published Dec. 5, 2025, 6:20 p.m. ET

More than 130 drug cases were dismissed Friday — and hundreds more are expected to collapse in the coming months — after prosecutors said three Philadelphia narcotics officers repeatedly gave false testimony in court.

Common Pleas Court Judge Lillian Ransom vacated 134 cases during the first in a series of hearings that could see nearly a thousand criminal prosecutions collapse because the testimony of three officers on the Narcotics Strike Force has been deemed unreliable.

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