2 N.Y.P.D. Officers Are Charged With Burglary and Groping
The New York Times
The officers stole money from a prostitute and groped her while on patrol duty in Queens, prosecutors said.
Two rookie officers with the New York Police Department have been indicted on charges of burglary, forcible touching, petty larceny and official misconduct after prosecutors said they groped and robbed a sex worker while on patrol duty in Queens.
The officers, Justin McMillan, 27, and Justin Colon, 24, who were assigned to the 115th Precinct in Jackson Heights, surrendered to the Police Department’s Internal Affairs Bureau on Monday morning, the Queens district attorney’s office said in a news release.
Both pleaded not guilty on Monday before Judge Toni M. Cimino in Queens Criminal Court, according to court records.
The indictment was connected to the officers’ response to a 311 call for prostitution at a building in Jackson Heights in July, prosecutors said.
After arriving at the building, the two officers turned off their body-worn cameras, approached a woman leaving through a side door and asked her to go inside with them, according to the release. While inside, they dumped her belongings out of her bag and took a set of keys to the building as she ran out, it said.
The officers then left to continue their patrol and did not report what had happened, according to prosecutors, who said the two returned about eight hours later while still on duty, deactivated their body cameras a second time and used the keys they had taken earlier to enter the building.
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