NEW YORK – Two NYPD detectives who are facing rape charges for allegedly having sex with a teen in a police van have quit their jobs. The NYPD announced Monday that police officers Eddie Martins and Richard Hall resigned in person at police headquarters in Manhattan. They were both formerly assigned to Brooklyn South Narcotics … Read more
In a rare move, the NYPD will internally try two Brooklyn cops accused of raping a prisoner — before their criminal trial takes place, the Daily News has learned. Police Officers Edward Martins and Richard Hall are charged with raping and kidnapping an 18-year-old woman they picked up for drug possession in Brooklyn on Sept. … Read more
Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy who was arrested on suspicion of sexually assaulting two female inmates inside a county jail earlier this year is now accused of attacking another woman inside the same facility, authorities said Wednesday. Giancarlo Scotti, 31, was arrested on suspicion of rape and oral copulation under color of authority in September … Read more
A pair of NYPD detectives and self-proclaimed “freaks” raped a handcuffed teenager in a police van in Coney Island after threatening to arrest her for having marijuana, Brooklyn prosecutors said Monday. Demoted detectives Eddie Martins and Richard Hall pleaded not guilty to a 50-count indictment that included charges of first-degree rape, first-degree criminal sexual act, … Read more
It took more than a month, but the two New York City police detectives who acknowledged they had sex with a handcuffed teenager inside a police van after detaining her for drugs have been charged with first-degree rape. A grand jury indicted officers Eddie Martins and Richard Hall on Thursday, despite their claims the sex … Read more
A Brooklyn teen who has accused two NYPD officers of sexual assault is now having her credibility “smeared,” her lawyer told BuzzFeed News, after a report the police were citing her social media use to deny her claims. The 18-year-old from Brooklyn, who goes by the pseudonym Anna Chambers on social media, has alleged that … Read more
ST. LOUIS – Insurance companies have agreed to pay $560,000 to settle part of a lawsuit filed by a mentally incapacitated woman who claimed she’d been raped by a Gasconade County law enforcement officer. Civil suits say Marty Rainey, who was a county deputy sheriff and a police officer in Rosebud and Hermann, Mo., groped … Read more
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A jury convicted a former Memphis police officer of attempted rape Thursday. Darrell Malone stood stunned when the jury read its verdict. Malone was originally facing a rape charge, but jurors dropped it to attempted rape. In April 2013, a month after Memphis Police Department kicked Malone off the force for another … Read more
HORRY COUNTY, SC – Horry County paid $185,000 in a settlement with a woman who filed a lawsuit against former Horry County Police detective Troy Allen Large last year, newly-obtained documents reveal. A receipt from the Office of the Treasurer of South Carolina shows a payment of $185,000 to the attorneys for the woman, who … Read more
CLEVELAND, Ohio – A once lauded Cleveland police officer on the run from authorities after breaking his GPS monitor a week before his rape trial was set to begin fatally shot himself Tuesday, ending a six-hour standoff with a SWAT team. Tommie Griffin III, 52, fatally shot himself in the chest with an AR-15, U.S. … Read more
The two NYPD cops who admittedly had sex with a teenager while on-duty — and are now facing potential rape charges — are trying to avoid indictment by attacking their accuser’s credibility, The Post has learned. In a letter to the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office, lawyers for disgraced cops Eddie Martins and Richard Hall targeted … Read more
Genetic tests have confirmed that the DNA of two cops was found on the Brooklyn teen who accused them of handcuffing her and raping her in a police van, according to sources close to the investigation. “DNA samples taken from both suspects came back as a match when compared to the rape kits,” a law … Read more