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Ex-NYPD cops charged with robbing, groping woman in brothel

Arrested duo face 10 years in prison

BY CARTER MYERS-BROWN
Posted 3/20/26

Federal prosecutors unveiled felony conspiracy charges against two former NYPD officers that accuse the duo of stealing cash and keys from a brothel and then returning hours later to grope and steal money from a sex worker.

On a muggy July day in 2024, police officers Justin McMillan and Justin Colon responded to a 311 complaint about a brothel operating inside a residential building in Jackson Heights. According to federal prosecutors, after arriving at the building, the officers turned off their body cameras and stole cash and a building key from the wallet of a woman who had just exited.

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