An officer with the New Kensington Police Department is on leave and under investigation after a violent confrontation with a suspect who ended up in the hospital with serious facial injuries.
Police say a man and a woman were looking to break into an abandoned house last week, but the two told friends they were only picking up fallen apples in the yard. Moments later, the woman was in handcuffs and the man, identified as Anthony Delarosa, tussled with officers when he sustained broken cheekbones and other facial injuries.
Now, Delarosa is out on bond, charged with aggravated assault, resisting arrest, loitering and prowling at night. However, New Kensington Police Officer Nathaniel Cochran — who investigators say inflicted the facial wounds — has been taken off the street…