NYPD recruit, four months into police academy, arrested for rape

Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News on Dec 4, 2025

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NEW YORK — An NYPD recruit, four months into his police academy training, was arrested on rape charges in Queens on Thursday, officials said.

Ahmed Elnahtawy, 24, was taken into custody at the NYPD Police Academy in College Point just after 8 a.m. and charged with rape, forcible touching and sex abuse, cops said.

A police source said the rape allegations stem from an NYPD Internal Affairs Bureau investigation. The sex crime he’s accused of committing occurred weeks ago. It wasn’t immediately clear if it happened before he joined the academy, a second source said.

Elnahtawy’s arraignment in Queens Criminal Court was pending.

He joined the NYPD on Aug. 20 and was expected to graduate the academy in February.

He was part of the nearly 1,100 new recruits sworn in over the summer that NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch said was the largest class the department has seen “in nearly a decade.”

This new class, coupled with the nearly 1,000 cadets who graduated from the academy in July and an upcoming class expected to be sworn in by the end of the year, makes this the largest number of recruits sworn into the NYPD in one year since 2006, Tisch said at the time.

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