Two New York City police officers surrendered at the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office Friday morning after they were caught falsely charging a man — whom they did not know was an undercover detective — with carrying untaxed cigarettes.

Sgt. Raymond Stokes and Officer Hector Triado, assigned to the 81 Precinct in Brooklyn, were apparently caught in an integrity test run by the NYPD’s Internal Affairs Bureau. Stokes and Triado learned about the man carrying a box of untaxed cigarettes by another officer, who was working with Internal Affairs.

The officers are accused of confronting and charging the man with selling the cigarettes, even though they never caught him in the act.

The undercover Internal Affairs investigator went along with the arrest and then reported the incident, which was caught on surveillance video.

Stokes and Triado, were reportedly charged with perjury, filing a false statement, making a false sworn statement, falsifying business records and official misconduct. The pair face a four-year prison term if convicted.

(Source: WPIX)