NYPD cop charged with lying about accident and radio attack: prosecutor

An NYPD officer allegedly hit a suspect with a police radio and lied about a patrol car hitting and injuring a motorist, according to the Bronx District Attorney’s Office.

Officer Kenny Victoria, 34, assigned to the 44th Precinct Police Department in the South Bronx, was hit with two separate charges, according to prosecutors.

Victoria, a nine-year NYPD veteran, was a passenger in a patrol car that collided with a motorcyclist near Monroe Avenue and East 173rd St. on Dec. 16, injuring the driver, authorities said.

Video surveillance showed the police car speeding up and turning into the motorcyclist as he entered an intersection, prosecutors said.

Victoria allegedly later filed a report claiming the motorcyclist, who was arrested for reckless endangerment and criminal mischief, “did a wheelie” and plowed into the police vehicle.

On April 30, Victoria responded to a call of a man with a gun near 311 East 170th St. and later pointed his police radio at the suspect’s head, the prosecutor said.

“The defendant allegedly lied about a police car accident in which a motorist was injured in order to cover for the driving officer, and four months later the defendant allegedly struck a suspect in the head with his radio,” stated Darcel D. Clark, District Attorney the Bronx, announced Friday.

She called Victoria’s alleged actions a “betrayal of the public trust.”

Victoria was charged with one count of attempting to offer a false instrument
in the first degree, in the second degree offering a false document for deposit, in the second degree forgery
Business records and official misconduct, prosecutors said.

In the second indictment, Victoria was charged with second-degree assault; According to the investigation, the charges are third-degree assault and official misconduct.

Victoria was released without bail following his arraignment on the two charges on Friday.

“Officer Victoria did her best in protecting the citizens of New York. We are confident that the truth will emerge at trial and PO Victoria will be cleared of any wrongdoing,” Victoria’s attorney Todd Spodek told The Post.

The NYPD said Victoria was suspended without pay.