An NYPD cop allegedly hit a suspect with a police radio and lied about a patrol car which struck and injured a motorist, according to the Bronx District Attorney’s office.
Officer Kenny Victoria, 34, who was assigned to the 44th Precinct stationhouse in the South Bronx, was hit with two separate indictments, prosecutors said.
Victoria, a nine-year NYPD veteran, was a passenger in a patrol car that crashed in to a motorcyclist Dec. 16 near Monroe Avenue and East 173rd St., leaving the rider injured, authorities said.
Video surveillance showed the cop car accelerated and turned into the motorcyclist as he was entering an intersection, prosecutors said.
Victoria allegedly later filed a report claiming the motorcyclist, who was arrested on reckless endangerment and criminal mischief charges, was “doing a wheelie” and drove into the police vehicle.
On April 30, near 311 East 170th St., Victoria responded to a call of a man with a gun, and later slammed his police radio on the suspect’s head, the DA said.
“The defendant allegedly lied about a police car accident that injured a motorist to cover up for the officer who was driving, and four months later the defendant allegedly struck a suspect on the head with his radio,” Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark announced Friday.
She called Victoria’s alleged actions “a betrayal of public trust.”
Victoria was charged in one indictment with attempted offering a false instrument
in the first degree, second-degree offering a false Instrument for filing, second-degree falsifying
business Records, and official misconduct, prosecutors said.
In the second indictment, Victoria was charged with second-degree assault; third-degree assault and official misconduct, according to the investigation.
Victoria was released without bail following his arraignment on the two indictments Friday.
“Police Officer Victoria has gone above and beyond in protecting the citizens of New York. We are confident that at trial, the truth will emerge and PO Victoria will be exonerated of any wrongdoing,” Victoria’s lawyer, Todd Spodek, told The Post.
The NYPD did not immediately respond to a request for comment.