NEW YORK (1010 WINS) — A Bronx NYPD officer was arraigned on Friday on two indictments, one charging him with assaulting a suspect with a police radio and another with lying about a patrol car striking and injuring a motorcyclist, prosecutors said.
Kenny Victoria, 34, is charged in one indictment with two counts of attempted offering a false instrument, falsifying business records and officials misconduct.
The investigation found that just before 2:30 p.m. on Dec. 16, 2023, Victoria was a passenger in an NYPD patrol car near Monroe Avenue and East 173rd St. in Claremont when the vehicle crashed into a motorcyclist.
The incident fractured the victim’s leg and forced him over the hood of the car, and the biker was arrested and charged with reckless endangerment and criminal mischief.
Prosecutors said that Victoria allegedly filed a collision report stating that the motorcyclist did a wheelie and drove into the patrol car, when surveillance video shows that the vehicle accelerated and turned into the motorcyclist as he entered an intersection.