QUEENS, N.Y. (PIX11) — An NYPD sergeant is accused of choking and punching his girlfriend months after a previous arrest for allegedly attacking her, authorities said.
Sgt. Tahino Sotomayor, 48, was arrested Thursday for allegedly beating the woman multiple times inside his Queens apartment from April 4 to May 18, according to the criminal complaint.
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Sotomayor allegedly choked and punched his girlfriend in his Vietor Avenue apartment on May 4. Two weeks later, he allegedly hit her in the back of the head with a phone battery and kicked her in the legs, according to the complaint.
In another incident, the sergeant allegedly grabbed and twisted the woman’s arms and legs, prosecutors said…