An NYPD cop has been accused of paying an underage prostitute for sex and videotaping their encounters.
Raul Olmeda, 40, is alleged to have solicited the girl – whose age was not disclosed in court records – several times between January and April this year.
He filmed himself having sex with her and allegedly once told her not to speak to his NYPD detectives.
Olmeda, who is engaged, was arrested after his NYPD colleagues discovered his alleged crimes during an investigation into prostitution in the Bronx, where he lived and worked.
He now faces 67 charges including use of a child in sexual performance, rape and patronizing a minor for prostitution.
NYPD cop Raul Olmeda (pictured right with his lawyer in court on Tuesday) is accused of having sex with the teenage prostitute several times earlier this year
The man is also accused in a separate tax fraud case. Prosecutors say he swindled $200,000 by not following the law.
Olmeda was placed on desk duty and had his gun and badge taken off of him as part of that investigation six months ago.
He was arrested over his alleged abuse of the teenager girl on Tuesday morning.
Between January and April this year, Olmeda ‘preyed’ on the ‘vulnerable’ teenager, prosecutors said.
It is not known how they came into contact with one another but at one stage, he is accused of telling her not to speak to his NYPD colleagues about another case.
Bronx District Attorney Darcel Clarke slammed his alleged treatment of the girl as ‘dehumanizing’ and ‘degrading’.
NYPD Commissioner James O’Neill said the charges against him were ‘egregious’.
‘The fact that the defendant is an NYPD officer evidences an unconscionable violation of his oath to uphold the law and protect the public,’ he told The New York Daily News.
Olmeda (seen above with his fiancée) is accused of filming his ‘dehumanizing’ encounters with the teenage girl
Prosecutors say the 40-year-old ‘preyed’ on the ‘vulnerable’ teenager and warned her not to speak about their relationship
Olmeda denies all of the charges against him.
Olmeda (above on Tuesday) denies all 67 counts against him
His lawyer told News 12 he had a ‘stellar’ background and suggested that the teenager was lying.
‘It’s a very heavy indictment, which is evidence of nothing. This isn’t numerous underage women.
‘This is one underage woman, and we don’t know her credibility at all,’ Stuart London said.
Olmeda was placed on $250,000 bail which an associate posted.
However, authorities are now looking in to whether the bail money was fraudulently obtained through the tax evasion scheme he is also said to have been a part of.