A New York Police Department inspector was charged on Friday with attempted rape in the first degree after a female officer accused him of trying to assault her in his precinct office, according to prosecutors in the Bronx district attorney’s office.
The inspector, Jeremy Scheublin, 45, who was once the commanding officer of the 46th precinct in the Bronx, was also charged with sexual abuse in the first degree, assault in the second degree and other charges. He turned himself in at the same precinct he once led early on Friday morning before he was taken to Bronx Criminal Court.
Inspector Scheublin, handcuffed and dressed in a dark blue suit, walked through the hallway of the courthouse, as dozens of his supporters, many of them women and officers from his former precinct, called out his name. He pleaded not guilty to all of the charges.
During the arraignment, prosecutors said that on Jan. 1, 2025, Inspector Scheublin was in his office with a female officer who worked under him. There, he grabbed her buttocks, picked her up and dropped her on his couch, then got on top of her and attempted to take off her belt, said Michael Naughton, a prosecutor from the Bronx district attorney’s office.
During the assault, Inspector Scheublin, who is white, told the officer, who is Black, “I want to have biracial babies with you,” according to Mr. Naughton.
Inspector Scheublin also told her: “I don’t know if I want to kiss you or choke you,” Mr. Naughton said.
The officer got away after she kicked him in the groin, he said.
“His dereliction of duty was absolute. Simply put,” Mr. Naughton said.
The officer sustained bruises and other injuries, prosecutors said.
John Scola, the lawyer for the officer, who was only identified by her initials, N.T., said she reported the incident to her supervisor the day that it happened.
“The only reason Jeremy Scheublin is answering to criminal charges today is N.T.,” he said. “She refused to be silenced.”
The day after the incident, Inspector Scheublin approached the officer at work and threatened her to stay quiet.
“‘The last person who made accusations against me, it didn’t go well for her,’” he told her, according to Mr. Naughton.
Inspector Scheublin was also charged with obstruction of governmental administration.
His lawyer, Oliver Storch, accused the officer of making false allegations for financial gain. The woman has filed a lawsuit against Inspector Scheublin and the Police Department.
Mr. Storch said in court that the woman told another officer that she planned to “set up a boss and accuse him of sexual misconduct” to make money.
The woman boasted that she had used money she won from another lawsuit to help pay for a condominium, Mr. Storch told the judge, Laurence Busching.
If she was successful again, Mr. Storch said, the female officer promised her colleague she would help her buy a “sister house.”
“This case is very disturbing,” Mr. Storch said. “It is salacious material that was in a civil lawsuit that has now spilled over into the criminal arena.”
Judge Busching set cash bail at $25,000.
Inspector Scheublin was suspended without pay, the police said.
The police said that the department’s Internal Affairs Bureau investigated the “deeply troubling claims” of the officer when she raised them in January, 2025, and referred the case to the Bronx District Attorney’s Office the same month.
“We hold our police officers to the highest standards and have zero tolerance for misconduct of any kind,” the police said in a statement. “The N.Y.P.D. conducts thorough investigations into any allegation that a member of the department failed to meet those standards — and that’s exactly what happened here.”
Mr. Scola, the officer’s lawyer, said that the department kept Inspector Scheublin in his post for more than a year and let him keep his firearm despite her allegations.
During that year, he said, Inspector Scheublin retaliated against her: ordering her to report to the precinct at 3 a.m., separating her from her assigned partners and slashing her overtime to the point where she lost $20,000 in one year, Mr. Scola said.
As he left the courtroom on Friday, Inspector Scheublin, out of handcuffs, hugged his supporters, who clapped for him.
“We love you,” one of them called out.
Denise Melendez, a retired detective who worked under Inspector Scheublin for 17 years, said she believed the allegations were “absolutely false.” She said he was known as a strict leader who rubbed some officers the wrong way with his exacting nature.
“He wanted everyone to be in uniform, your hair up. He wanted nobody hanging out,” she said. Mr. Storch said in court that the officer who accused him may also have been motivated by animus at a tough leader.
Inspector Scheublin was transferred on Jan. 12, 2026. The department removed his firearm in March, after Mr. Scola filed an emergency motion on March 20, demanding that the inspector be disarmed.
A department spokeswoman said that during that time, the district attorney’s office was still investigating the allegations against Inspector Scheublin.
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