An NYPD officer was found masturbating with other men in a Penn Station bathroom last week, The Post has learned.<\/p>\n
Sgt. Michael Merritt was allegedly caught in the act during a Sept. 3 sting operation conducted by the Amtrak Police Department inside the station, police sources said. The operation targeted a loo known for lewd activity, police sources said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Merritt, 41, was placed on modified assignment the day he was busted, and moved to Brooklyn Criminal Court, police paperwork shows. He was later suspended from the job, a police source added.<\/p>\n
An NYPD sergeant is in hot water after getting caught in a bathroom masturbating with other men. Luiz C. Ribeiro for New York Post<\/p>\n
The officer was caught by Amtrack cops, police sources said. Obtained by the New York Post<\/p>\n
It wasn\u2019t clear if any criminal charges were filed against him and the Amtrak Police Department referred questions about the case to the NYPD.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\u201cThe incident is under internal review,\u201d an NYPD spokesperson said in a statement.<\/p>\n
When reached by phone, Merritt didn\u2019t answer questions about his suspension or what happened at Penn Station.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s not clear if the officer is facing criminal charges and the NYPD said they were investigating. Erik Thomas\/NY Post<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m not commenting right now. Have a good day,\u201d he said, before hanging up on a reporter.<\/p>\n
The Penn Station restroom was being monitored because of gay hook-ups there, a police source said. Christopher Sadowski<\/p>\n
Merritt joined the Force in July 2006 and made $134,000 in 2024, NYPD records show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An NYPD officer was found masturbating with other men in a Penn Station bathroom last week, The Post…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":223647,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,23003,5248,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,31145,5257,101775,51632,67,586,132,5230,68,1154,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-223646","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-amtrak","10":"tag-metro","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-newyork","14":"tag-newyorkcity","15":"tag-ny","16":"tag-nyc","17":"tag-nyc-transit","18":"tag-nypd","19":"tag-penn-station","20":"tag-sting","21":"tag-united-states","22":"tag-united-states-of-america","23":"tag-unitedstates","24":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","25":"tag-us","26":"tag-us-news","27":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115197217233074507","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}