Atlantic City casinos loom over the beach.
UPI/John Angelillo
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J., Oct. 8 (UPI) -- A New
York City police officer and a New York state trooper have been arrested on
charges that they raped a woman at the Trump Taj Mahal in Atlantic City.
The alleged assault took place in April,
prosecutors in Atlantic County in New Jersey said. The victim was described
only as a 34-year-old woman who lives in New York state, and no details were
released about the alleged assault.
Andrei Torres, 32, who has been a city police
officer for seven years and lives in the borough of Queens, surrendered late
Tuesday, authorities said. Devon Thomas, 35, a state trooper for three years
and a resident of Hollis on Long Island, was arrested by state police internal
affairs officers.
Both are charged with aggravated sexual
assault and sexual assault by force.
"Mr. Thomas has served as a police
officer and as a member of the military with the distinction," his lawyer,
Joseph Levin, told the Press of Atlantic City. "He has spent his life
fighting for and upholding the law."
Thomas and Torres were expected to appear in
court Wednesday in New York state.
The internal affairs departments of both New
York City and State police and security at the Taj Mahal assisted in the
six-month investigation.
