A cop charged with raping a woman in upper Manhattan earlier this month is under investigation for other rapes. Police are looking into other rape cases to see if Officer Pena has any connection to them. Hit the jump to read the rest of the story.
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Kelly said detectives are looking into whether Officer Michael Pena is connected to other rapes that have occurred in the past three years.
“Investigators have picked out some (cases) that they think have the potential of having been perpetrated by this individual,” he said at a press conference.
The commissioner said the rapes happened after Pena joined the NYPD. He declined to provide more specific details.
Pena is accused of raping a 25-year-old Bronx schoolteacher behind an Inwood apartment building at gunpoint last Friday while off duty.
‘He was caught with his victim by two uniformed cops called to the scene by a witness.
Kelly called the rape “a very, very disturbing case.”
He said the department has also been scrutinizing Pena’s department records and his screening process.
“I met with psychologists, the head of applicant processing,” Kelly said. “Everyone that was involved with his coming into the department. We found nothing remarkable, nothing exceptional in his background, that in hindsight should have been done.”
