Officers Justin McMillan and Justin Colon intentionally turned off their body cameras as they broke into a residential building, stole money and forcibly touched a woman while on duty last July, according to Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz.

The patrol officers, who were still on probationary status after entering the police academy in 2023, had been responding to a report of prostitution inside the building.

Prosecutors say the two shut off their bodycams before approaching a woman leaving the building and taking a key to the residence from her. They returned eight hours later, unlocked the door and found a woman having sex with a man, who immediately fled, according to Katz’s office. The woman ran away and eventually called 911 with the help of others, prosecutors said. The officers, meanwhile, returned to their station house without reporting the incidents. (Jamaica Gleaner/AP)