Oct 27, 2008 9:05 pm US/Eastern
Bronx Grand Jury Indicts 2 Cops For Assault
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The officers have been stripped of their badges and weapons.
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Two police officers were indicted Monday on charges of assaulting two men in a traffic dispute.
A Bronx grand jury indicted Michelle Anglin and Kollen Robinson on two counts of assault and two counts of official misconduct in the Aug. 15 incident, District Attorney Robert T. Johnson's office said.
Anglin's defense lawyer Edgar DeLeon declined to comment Monday. There was no telephone listing for Robinson's lawyer Judith Vargas.
Anglin, 37, and Robinson, 24, are accused of kicking, punching and pistol-whipping a driver whose car door was blocking their lane of traffic.
The officers were off duty and were in Robinson's sport utility vehicle when they got stuck in evening rush hour traffic, prosecutors said.
One of the officers yelled at Marlon Smith to shut his car door, prosecutors said. Smith, 25, yelled back an insult, and an argument erupted, according to a criminal complaint filed in August.
The women got out of their SUV and walked over to Smith's car, the complaint said. He tried to shut the door, but Anglin sprayed him in the face with tear gas, it said.
Smith then got out of the car and tried to grab Anglin, and Robinson began punching him, the complaint said.
Robinson said, "Do you know who you are f------ with? We are the police," according to the complaint.
Robinson also is accused of hitting Smith with a baton, and Anglin is accused of pistol-whipping him with her gun.
The officers left the scene, but a witness got the SUV's license plate number, which was tracked to Robinson, prosecutors said.
Smith was rushed to a hospital, where he received 25 staples to his scalp to close three cuts, they said.
The officers also are accused of hitting a witness who was walking by the incident. The man is still taking medication for migraine headaches resulting from the baton attack, prosecutors said.
"If these allegations prove true," police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said in August, "it's a horrendous case, a horrendous situation."
The officers, who were stripped of their badges and guns after the accusations arose, were on modified duty as of Monday, Lt. John Grimpel said. Robinson joined the police department in 2006, and Anglin joined in 2005.
Anglin was free on $25,000 bail, and Robinson was free on $10,000 bail.
They each face up to 15 years in prison if convicted of the more serious assault charge.
In a separate case of police abuse allegations, Brooklyn prosecutors on Monday said they planned to convene a grand jury to investigate and decide whether to bring charges against four officers accused of attacking and sodomizing a man with a walkie-talkie at a subway station.
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