Ex-Wichita cop who outed undercover officer is sentenced for not reporting gambling

A former Wichita police officer was sentenced Friday to a year of supervised probation for not reporting illegal poker games, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.

Bruce Mackey pleaded guilty to one felony count of misprision of a felony, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said in statement.

“Mackey admitted that while he was a police officer he knew and did not report individuals who were conducting a gambling business,” the office said in a statement.

During an illegal poker game in 2014, the statement said, “Mackey confirmed for organizers of the game that one of the gamblers was a Wichita police officer,” after the organizers tried to identify the man.

The officer gambling was working undercover.

In October, Mackey, 46, of Goddard, was indicted on federal charges connected to the gambling. At the time, Mackey still worked for the Wichita Police Department. The day the indictment was made public — Jan. 18 — Mackey resigned, Police Chief Gordan Ramsay said then.