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No Jail Time For Former NYPD Detectives Accused Of Raping Teen In Police Van
Two former detectives with the New York City Police Department avoided jail time this week after being accused of kidnapping and raping an 18-year-old Brooklyn woman in a police van in 2017.
Former Brooklyn South narcotics detectives Eddie Martins, 39, and Richard Hall, 34, received five years’ probation on Thursday after cutting a plea deal in March. The officers, who were originally charged with rape, sexual assault and kidnapping, pleaded guilty to two counts of third-degree bribe receiving and nine counts of official misconduct.
On the original charges, Martins and Hall had faced up to 25 years in prison. With the plea deal, they faced a maximum of seven years.
“These defendants engaged in a shocking abuse of power which they finally acknowledged,” Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez said in a Thursday statement. “While I would have preferred to see them serve prison time, they are no longer members of our police department and with today’s plea are convicted felons.”
The district attorney’s office pushed for the former officers to serve a one- to three-year jail term, but the sentence was handed down by Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Danny Chun without prosecutors’ input.
