The off-duty, drunken police officer accused of raping and sodomizing a school teacher in upper Manhattan is being eyed in two other sex attacks in the three years since he’s been on the force, the city’s top cop said today.
“We’ve picked out some that have the potential to be the same individual,” Commissioner Ray Kelly said.
He refused to provide further details.
Kelly also said he asked a psychologist about Officer Michael Pena’s brazen attack on the 25-year-old teacher.
The psychologist believed it’s “certainly possible that something happened in the past,” but so far the police haven’t found anything concrete, according to Kelly.
On Friday morning, a sloshed Pena lumbered up to the teacher on an Inwood street as she was commuting to work in the South Bronx, cops said.
The off-duty cop allegedly asked her for directions to the No. 1 train, flashed a gun in his waistband and snarled, “You’re coming with me!”
He then put his arm around her neck and forced her into a courtyard behind an apartment building on Park Terrace West and 217th Street, cops said.
As Pena sexually attacked the woman, a stunned witness in the building dialed 911, cops said.
Sources said the victim warned responding officers, “He raped me! Be careful! He has a gun!”
Police found Pena’s shield inside his pocket and recovered his loaded 9mm service weapon from the ground.
Pena was charged with rape and criminal sexual act, and held on $1 million bond after his arraignment in Manhattan Criminal Court.
The NYPD suspended him without pay.