{"id":292558,"date":"2026-07-10T19:16:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T19:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/292558\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T19:16:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T19:16:14","slug":"update-former-commanding-officer-of-52nd-precinct-arrested-for-attempted-rape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/292558\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE Former Commanding Officer of 52nd Precinct Arrested for Attempted Rape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<br \/>\nBy S\u00cdLE MOLONEY<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/NN22_0808_081ED_NN.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-75010 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/NN22_0808_081ED_NN.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2400\" height=\"1602\"  \/><\/a>FORMER DEPUTY INSPECTOR of the 52nd Precinct, Jeremy Scheublin, responds to a question from the audience during the Community Forum on Harm Reduction inside Monroe College\u2019s Mintz Auditorium in Fordham Manor on Monday, Aug. 8, 2022. <br \/>Photo credit: Jos\u00e9 A. Giralt<\/p>\n<p>Former commanding officer of the 52nd Precinct, Jeremy Scheublin, an inspector, and later of the 46th Precinct, has been arrested and charged with attempted rape and other offenses, the Office of the Bronx District Attorney announced Friday, July 10.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The NYPD also announced Friday that at around 7.10 a.m. on Friday, Scheublin, 45, was arrested while off-duty and was charged within the confines of the 46th Precinct. He had previously been removed from his position as commanding officer of the 46th Precinct.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to the NYPD, the department\u2019s internal affairs bureau investigated the case and then referred it to the Bronx District Attorney\u2019s Office in January 2025. The District Attorney\u2019s criminal investigation remains ongoing. According to the NYPD, Scheublin was \u201ctransferred\u201d in January 2026. Norwood News has asked where he was transferred to and will share any updates we receive.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/485765612_1565824277689842_7135812186420984384_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-134699\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/485765612_1565824277689842_7135812186420984384_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"  \/><\/a>FORMER DEPUTY INSPECTOR and commanding officer of the 52nd Precinct Jeremy Scheublin, NYPD Assistant Chief Benjamin Gurley of then Patrol Borough Bronx, and a member of the NY Sheriff\u2019s department take questions at a public safety forum held at Bronx Library Center in Kingsbridge Heights on Thursday Nov. 30, 2023, hosted by Bronx Community Board 7 and the 52nd Precinct Community Council in conjunction with the 52nd Precinct, and the Deputy Mayor\u2019s Office for Public Safety.<br \/>Photo by S\u00edle Moloney<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We received the following statement from the NYPD on the matter: \u201cWe hold our police officers to the highest standards and have zero tolerance for misconduct of any kind. The NYPD conducts thorough investigations into any allegation that a member of the department failed to meet those standards \u2014 and that\u2019s exactly what happened here. The NYPD\u2019s Internal Affairs Bureau investigated these deeply troubling claims and referred this case to the Bronx District Attorney\u2019s Office for prosecution.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to the criminal complaint, in the first count, the defendant is accused of attempted rape in the first degree, and allegedly on or about Jan. 1, 2025, in the County of the Bronx, allegedly \u201cdid attempt to engage in vaginal sexual contact with a person known to the grand jury by forcible compulsion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In the second count, he is also accused\u00a0 of sexual abuse in the first degree, and is alleged, on or about Jan. 1, 2025, to have subjected a person known to the grand jury to sexual contact by forcible compulsion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-20-175457.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-128410 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-20-175457.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"347\"  \/><\/a>DEPUTY INSPECTOR ASIF Iqbal has been appointed commanding officer of the 52nd Precinct.\u00a0<br \/>Photo courtesy of the NYPD<\/p>\n<p>According to the criminal complaint, in the third count, Scheublin is accused of assault in the second degree, and it is alleged that on or about Jan. 1, 2025, \u201cin the course of and in furtherance of the commission or attempted commission of a felony,\u201d that he did cause \u201cphysical injury to a person known to the grand jury who was not a participant in the crime.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to the criminal complaint, in the fourth count, Scheublin is accused of assault in the third degree, and it is alleged that on or about Jan. 1, 2025, in The Bronx, \u201cwith intent to cause physical injury,\u201d he allegedly \u201ccaused such injury to a person known to the grand jury.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to the criminal complaint, in the fifth count, Scheublin is accused of \u201cunlawful imprisonment in the second degree,\u2019 and it is alleged that on or about Jan. 1, 2025, in the County of The Bronx, he allegedly \u201cdid restrain a person known to the grand jury.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to the criminal complaint, in the sixth count, Scheublin is accused of forcible touching, and it is alleged that on or about Jan. 1, 2025, in the County of The Bronx, he allegedly \u201cdid intentionally and for no legitimate purpose, forcibly touch the sexual or other intimate parts of a person known to the grand jury, for the purpose of degrading or abusing that person for the purpose of gratifying the defendant\u2019s sexual desire.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to the criminal complaint, in the seventh count, Scheublin is accused of official misconduct and it is alleged that on or about Jan. 1, 2025, in the County of The Bronx, \u201cbeing a public servant, to wit, a member of the NYPD, with intent to obtain or deprive another person of a benefit, did commit an act relating to his office but constituting an unauthorized exercise of his official functions, knowing that such act was unauthorized.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.norwoodnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/di_moran_juan-scaled.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-134711 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/di_moran_juan-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\"  \/><\/a>DEPUTY INSPECTOR JUAN Moran was appointed commanding officer of the 46th Precinct after former Inspector Jeremy Scheublin was transferred.\u00a0<br \/>Photo courtesy of the NYPD<\/p>\n<p>According to the criminal complaint, in the eighth count, Scheublin is accused of \u201cobstructing governmental administration in the second degree\u201d and it is alleged that on or about Jan. 2, 2025, in the County of the Bronx, Scheublin allegedly \u201cdid intentionally obstruct, impair, or pervert or attempt to prevent a public servant from performing an official function by means of intimidation, physical force, or interference, or by means of an independently unlawful act.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As reported, Deputy Inspector Asif Iqbal was recently appointed as the new commanding officer of the 52nd Precinct, which covers some or all of the north Bronx neighborhoods of Norwood, Bedford Park, Fordham, Kingsbridge Heights, University Heights, along with Bronx Park.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Inspector Juan Moran is the current commanding officer of the 46th Precinct which covers the Fordham, University Heights, Morris Heights and Mount Hope neighborhoods. When Norwood News asked at the time for details of why Scheublin was no longer commanding officer of the 46th Precinct, we did not receive an immediate response from the NYPD.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/485274497_1563720321233571_8060378994692471780_n-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-128509 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/485274497_1563720321233571_8060378994692471780_n-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\"  \/><\/a>AT THE 52ND Precinct Community Council meeting held Thursday, Sept. 28, 2023 at The Plaza Rehab &amp; Nursing Center on West Kingsbridge Road, members of the 52nd Precinct Community Council led by Council President Brenda Caldwell-Paris, members of the clergy council led by Minister Candido Gonzalez, and members of the 52nd Precinct led by now-former commanding officer Deputy Inspector Jeremy Scheublin and then-Captain Asif Iqbal, joined residents for a minute\u2019s silence in memory of one-year-old Nicholas Feliz Dominici who, as reported, died after he was fatally poisoned with fentanyl at Divino Ni\u00f1o Daycare Center in Kingsbridge Heights on Sept. 15, 2023.<br \/>Photo by S\u00edle Moloney<\/p>\n<p>Scheublin is presumed innocent unless and until convicted in a court of law. Norwood News has reached out to Scheublin for comment and will share any updates we receive.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As reported, NYPD Assistant Chief Benjamin Gurley, pictured above with Scheublin during a 2023 meeting in Kingsbridge Heights, was placed on desk duty following an off-duty shooting in Rockland County.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The New York Post has <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/07\/10\/us-news\/nypd-precinct-boss-who-allegedly-told-underling-he-wants-to-make-biracial-babies-with-you-arrested-on-attempted-rape-charge\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">reported<\/a> that the other person involved in the alleged attempted rape is an NYPD officer.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; By S\u00cdLE MOLONEY FORMER DEPUTY INSPECTOR of the 52nd Precinct, Jeremy Scheublin, responds to a question from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":292520,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-292558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}