‘Up all night doing cocaine’: Two Sharon Hill police officers gave confidential information to a drug dealer, one in exchange for drugs, AG says

Two Sharon Hill police officers broke the law by providing confidential information to a drug dealer — one of them in exchange for cocaine, the state attorney general’s office said Thursday.

Detective Vincent Procopio, 34, was charged with possession with the intent to deliver “for acting as an accomplice in drug dealing” and aiding the dealer in exchange for cocaine, Attorney General Dave Sunday said. He is also charged with bribery, tampering with physical evidence, and related crimes.

Procopio, who worked for the department for four years and was assigned to the Delaware County Drug Task Force, told the dealer — whom authorities did not identify — about law enforcement investigations and whether any of the dealer’s associates were cooperating with law enforcement, Sunday said.

Officer Domenic Dellabarba Jr., 27, a patrolman, provided confidential information to the dealer, according to court documents. He is charged with obstructing the administration of the law and related crimes.

There was no indication in court records that either had hired a lawyer.

The relationship between Procopio and the 23-year-old dealer developed into something of a friendship over the course of last year, and the two men exchanged frequent text messages, according to the affidavit of probable cause for his arrest.

The dealer would ask about possible task force investigations into his activities, the document says, and the detective would ask for $100 bags of cocaine that he was given for free.

“I been getting a bad feeling lately it’s been hot,” the dealer texted Procopio in 2025, according to the document. “You guys are up to some [expletive].”

Procopio and the dealer met in May or June that year through a mutual friend and got together at Haggerty’s bar in Ridley, the affidavit said.

Outside the bar, investigators said, Procopio told the dealer he could “help him” with information about law enforcement investigations.

Procopio then snorted a line of cocaine off the dealer’s truck, according to the affidavit.

Over the following months, the document said, things unfolded this way:

The detective periodically texted the dealer, asking for bags of cocaine for himself and others — once on his way to Sunday Mass. In November, the men met up at the dealer’s mother’s house and “stayed up all night doing cocaine.”

Procopio told the dealer that if he was ever stopped by police, he should tell officers he was Procopio’s cousin.

On Dec. 18, 2025, the dealer was pulled over for a traffic stop in Chester. Before police could search his car, the dealer called Procopio four times seeking help, and the men spoke. He had cocaine in the vehicle and was “dirty.”

Procopio told the dealer he would use his access to internal law enforcement databases to find out whether his car was going to be towed to a police lot. If so, the dealer planned to later sneak into the vehicle and remove the drugs.

The detective then called Chester police and said a “buddy” of his had been stopped and was in a ”bad way.“

Delaware County investigators later interviewed Procopio about the incident and found the detective “lied during investigation and deleted texts from his phone in an effort to avoid prosecution,” the affidavit said.

Two days after the traffic stop, according to the document, the dealer texted Dellabarba, whom he knew through Procopio, and asked him to run the registration on his truck to see if there was an active warrant for his arrest.

Dellabarba did so, the affidavit said, and then attempted to conceal the search.

Sunday, the attorney general, decried the officers’ actions, saying their crimes “were betrayals of the community and of their fellow officers, who abided by their sworn oaths to protect and serve.“

The drug dealer, who also faces charges, cooperated with law enforcement and provided information about the officers to the attorney general’s office, Sunday said.

The investigation is continuing, he said.