The NYPD detective who is accused of questionable behavior with waitress at a Washington Heights restaurant—while on-duty—claims that he's innocent. At least that's according to a NY Post source, with information about what Detective Douglas Strong told his union lawyer.
The waitress claims that her boss at La Parilla gave her $200 to drink with the group because it was the detective's 49th birthday. She blacked out and claims she woke up to the owner sexually assaulting her. The Post, which says the detective is married, reports, "Strong told his union lawyer yesterday he went to La Parilla’s back room alone with the drunken waitress on Feb. 16 after she showed him and three other 33rd Precinct cops racy pictures of herself, the source said. 'She falls asleep and he covers her up with a blanket. He did not have sex with her. He did not have intercourse with her. Apparently, he did take her panties,' he told the lawyer from the Detectives’ Endowment Association, according to the source."
The source says, "When she got into bed, she started to take some of her clothes off." The source also claims that Strong told his lawyer that he had "three sodas and one glass of wine," making him "fit for duty" and that the waitress called him about her panties, "He just goes right to her and hands them off in a plastic bag."
The waitress told the Daily News, “The last thing I remember is [the detective] patting the bed and telling me to sit down next to him... He was trying to kiss me and I was trying to ward off his advances. I remember trying to slide away from him, bob and weave. He was like, ‘Come here, everything’s all right. I’m not gonna hurt you.’" Then she blacked out. A rape kit was conduced by the hospital, but the results are not in yet. When she contacted the detective for her underwear, he told her that they didn't have sex because she was incapacitated.
