BALTIMORE (WBFF) - A City police officer, who retired from the Baltimore Police Department earlier this year is now a convicted criminal.

Victor Rivera entered into a plea agreement after he was accused of providing a false statement to federal agents.

Rivera was questioned last year about three kilos of cocaine he and other officers found in the back of a police surveillance van back in 2009.

Instead of turning the drugs in as evidence, Rivera and other officers kept the cocaine and sold it.

During Wednesday's court proceeding, Rivera did not deny that happened.

Rivera told Judge Catherine Blake ||

I'm just here to accept my responsibilities and do what's right .

The three kilos were part of a bigger bust involving 41 kilos of cocaine.

The questioning of Rivera stemmed from an ongoing federal investigation into former members of the now-disbanded Gun Trace Task Force.

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Federal prosecutors charged GTTF members with racketeering among other charges.

The rogue group of officers spent their careers on the streets of Baltimore robbing people.

Rivera was a Baltimore police officer for 26 years.

He'll be sentenced in the Fall.

The former city cop faces a maximum sentence of five years in federal prison.