The New York Times is reporting the arrest of Michael Pena, a 27-year old officer with the NYPD for sexually assaulting a school teacher in the backyard of a building near her home. The officer was off-duty at the time and visibly intoxicated.
The New York Times reports:
The woman, a 25-year-old teacher, told the police that she was on her way to work in the Bronx when a man who appeared to be intoxicated approached her near her home in Inwood and asked for directions to the No. 1 train, Mr. Browne said.[/p]At one point, the man put his arm around her, opened his jacket, pointed at a pistol that was on his belt, and said, “ ‘You’re coming with me,’ ” Mr. Browne said.[/p]The man, who was not believed to have identified himself as a police officer, led the woman along for two to three blocks “under threat,” Mr. Browne said. He turned into a backyard behind a residential building near Park Terrace West and West 217th Street, then raped her, Mr. Browne said.[/p]