By Marlyn Montilla
Sep 29, 2024, 11:32 AM EDT
An NYPD officer allegedly hit a suspect with a police radio and subsequently lied about a patrol car crashing and injuring a driver, according to the Bronx district attorney’s office.
Identified as Kenny Victoria, 34, who was assigned to the 44th Precinct police station in the south of the Bronx, he is charged with two separate charges, prosecutors explained.
Victoria, a nine-year NYPD veteran, was a passenger in a patrol car that collided with a motorist on Dec. 16 near Monroe Avenue and East 173rd St., leaving the driver injured, they said. the officials.
Security camera footage showed the patrol car accelerated and headed toward the driver as he was entering an intersection, prosecutors said.
Victoria allegedly later filed a report arguing that the motorist, who was stopped for reckless endangerment and criminal mischief, was “wheelieing” and crashed into the NYPD patrol car, the New York Post reported.
On April 30, near 311 East 170th St., Victoria responded to a report of a subject with a gun and then slammed her police radio into the suspect’s head, the district attorney said.
“The defendant allegedly lied about a police car accident that injured a motorist to cover up for the officer driving, and four months later the defendant allegedly struck a suspect in the head with his radio,” the Bronx district attorney announced Friday. , Darcel D. Clark.
He called the alleged actions of the officer in question “a betrayal of the public trust.”
Victoria was officially charged with attempted offering a false instrument in the first degree, offering a false instrument for filing in the second degree, falsifying business records in the second degree and official misconduct, prosecutors said.
This would be the second accusation for Victoria, who was charged with second-degree assault, third-degree assault and official misconduct, according to the investigations.
The officer was released without bail following his arraignment on both charges on Friday.
“Police Officer Victoria has gone above and beyond to protect the citizens of New York. We are confident that at trial the truth will come to light and Officer Victoria will be exonerated of any wrongdoing,” said Victoria’s attorney, Todd Spodek.
NYPD announced that Victoria was suspended without pay.
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