Defendant Convicted After Bench Trial
Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark today announced that a former NYPD Police Officer has been sentenced to 60 days in jail for Attempted Assault and Official Misconduct for punching an emotionally disturbed woman in a stationhouse holding cell after she spat on him.
District Attorney Clark said, “Video surveillance showed the defendant assaulting the woman. Police Officers must use restraint with mentally ill persons.”
District Attorney Clark said the defendant, Luis Marte, was found guilty of Attempted Assault in the third degree and Official Misconduct after a bench trial by Bronx Supreme Court Justice Ralph Fabrizio, who sentenced him on January 10, 2024 to 60 days in jail and two years probation.
According to the investigation, on March 1, 2019, Marte, who at the time was a Police Officer in the 44th Precinct, was spat on by a mentally ill woman who was in the holding cell. Marte unlocked the cell and punched the woman repeatedly, until other officers escorted him out of the cell. The woman was not seriously injured.
District Attorney Clark thanked NYPD Internal Affairs Bureau Investigations Division Group 21 for their work in the investigation.
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