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Auxiliary Police Officers Assault, Handcuff and Rob Deliveryman, NYPD Says

By Gwynne Hogan | March 3, 2015 8:58pm
 Two auxiliary police officers, James Kiernan, 22, and Jordan Martinez, 22, robbed $180 from a deliveryman, police said.
Two auxiliary police officers, James Kiernan, 22, and Jordan Martinez, 22, robbed $180 from a deliveryman, police said.
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EAST HARLEM — A pair of NYPD auxiliary officers flashed their shields then assaulted and handcuffed a restaurant deliveryman before robbing him of $180 cash and his iPhone, police said.

James Kiernan, 22, and Jordan Martinez, 22, confronted the worker on Feb. 25 in the lobby of an apartment building at 220 East 102 St., according to the NYPD.

They showed the man their badges and then escorted him in the elevator to the 14th floor where he learned that the tenant there had not ordered the food, police said.

When the victim returned to the elevator, the auxiliary officers attacked the man, handcuffed him behind his back and took his wallet, cash and phone before fleeing the building and leaving him in the restraints in the building stairwell.

Internal Affairs Bureau investigators identified the tow men and on Feb. 27 they were charged with robbery, burglary, unlawful imprisonment, criminal impersonation, assault and criminal mischief.

Bail was set at $100,000 for Martinez and at $75,000 for Kiernan, records show.

Both men were being held in the Manhattan Detention Complex, records show.