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  • Raleigh officer accused of coercing crash victim into sex crime now indicted on prostitution charges

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    A Raleigh police officer is facing additional sex crime charges nearly a month after he was charged with coercing a crash victim into sexual favors to remove a DWI charge.

    According to court documents, a grand jury indicted Tremale Cogdell, 28, on five counts of soliciting prostitution. Court documents said the crimes happened between August 1 and September 15 and involved five different people.

    The Raleigh Police Department announced an internal investigation that accused Cogdell for committing a sex crime while he was on duty earlier this month.

    Police accused Cogdell of obstruction of justice by “failing to conduct and charge a DWI investigation in exchange for sexual acts. This offense was done in secrecy and malice.”

    The crime is believed to have happened in the early morning hours of Sept. 12.

    “After completing a call for service, Mr. Cogdell drove the victim back to his personal residence in his city of Raleigh police vehicle and a sexual encounter occurred while Mr. Cogdell was on duty,” said Rico Boyce, Raleigh’s Chief of Police.

    Boyce said the State Bureau of Investigation contacted RPD on Sept. 26 about the incident involving Cogdell. Cogdell was then put on administrative leave that same day, according to Boyce.

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  • Two NYPD cops indicted in sexual abuse of unconscious woman after night of drinking: DA

    Two NYPD cops indicted in sexual abuse of unconscious woman after night of drinking: DA

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    Two NYPD police officers were indicted on multiple sexual abuse charges stemming from an incident involving a heavily intoxicated woman who could barely stand up on her own after a night out in the Bronx, according to the district attorney.

    The two cops, 31-year-old Christian Garcia and 39-year-old Julio Alcantara-Santiago, were drinking with the victim at the Zona de Cuba restaurant in the Concourse neighborhood after midnight on July 9, 2023, said Bronx District Attorney Darcel Clark. Investigators said the woman got very intoxicated, unable to stand or walk on her own.

    Surveillance video showed the two officers practically carry her out, holding the woman up by her arms, before bringing her into a nearby building. Prosecutors alleged that Garcia and Alcantara-Santiago performed sexual acts on the woman inside as she was unconscious, then ran off when she started to wake up.

    The DA’s office said the victim went to a hospital the next morning, where a rape kit was conducted. Medical testing identified DNA contributions from Garcia and Alcantara-Santiago on the victim after both men agreed to submit DNA samples.

    “The alleged actions are reprehensible. The victim was incapacitated and physically helpless, unable to consent. Our office is providing services to the victim to help her through this,” said DA Clark.

    The cops were indicted Thursday on multiple charges including sex abuse and criminal sexual act. Attorney information for was not clear for either Garcia nor Alcantara-Santiago.

    The next court appearance for the two was scheduled for Aug. 6.

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    Tom Shea and NBC New York Staff

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  • Manhunt underway after woman lassoed with belt in terrifying NYC sex attack

    Manhunt underway after woman lassoed with belt in terrifying NYC sex attack

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    A terrifying sex attack that saw a man lasso a woman from behind with his belt before dragging her to the ground and assaulting her in between two cars has a Bronx community on edge — and outraged.

    Police shared disturbing video from the May 1 overnight attack late Thursday in hopes of catching the man responsible. It shows a man following a woman near East 152nd Street and Third Avenue in Melrose after engaging in conversation with her. He walks behind.

    Then, he hangs a white towel or shirt over his face to mask his identity, takes off his belt and uses it to lasso her around the neck. He pulls back hard, sending her backward and to the ground, where she smacks her head on the sidewalk. The woman blacks out before the man drags her between two parked cars and sexually assaults her.

    The man can be seen on surveillance video leaning over her and repeatedly looking around several times to make sure there are no witnesses, authorities say. One man said looking at the video “made me so angry.”

    No arrests have been made.

    Anyone with information on the man is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-577-TIPS.

    The victim is said to be recovering from the assault.

    An investigation by the Special Victims Unit is ongoing.

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