NYPD Inspector Jeremy Scheublin arrested for attempted rape in attack on female subordinate

NYPD Inspector Jeremy Scheublin surrendered Friday on attempted rape and other charges, accused of attacking a female officer inside the Bronx station house he commanded, authorities said.

Scheublin, a 24-year veteran of the force, kept his head down with furrowed brows and a frown during most of his arraignment on a host of felony charges handed up by a Bronx Supreme Court grand jury, including first-degree sexual abuse, assault, unlawful imprisonment, official misconduct, obstructing governmental administration and related offenses.

He pleaded not guilty.

Judge Laurence Busching rejected prosecutors’ request for $150,000 bail, setting Scheublin’s bond at $75,000, which the outgoing inspector apparently posted right away, leaving the courtroom with his attorney, Oliver Storch, soon after the hearing ended and ignoring shouted questions from reporters.

Scheublin is currently suspended without pay and has put in for his retirement. The Daily News reported in March that he had been placed on modified duty — stripped of his gun and shield — more than a year after the subordinate he allegedly targeted began cooperating in probes by Bronx District Attorney Darcel Clark’s office and the NYPD.

​In a lawsuit filed March 6 against Scheublin and the city, the woman, a decorated five-year veteran of the force, alleged the attack came after Scheublin tricked her into being alone with him at the Fordham Heights station house on New Year’s Day 2025.

​“I don’t know whether to kiss or choke you,” the lawsuit and indictment filed Friday quote Scheublin, adding that he said he wanted to “make biracial babies.”

The incident occurred while Scheublin had authority over his victim as the commanding officer at the 46th Precinct, prosecutors said, outlining the encounter in detail.

“Inspector Scheublin blocked the exit of his office. He grabbed at the victim’s buttocks. He picked the victim up and dropped her on the couch. Got on top of her. Tried to kiss her while she was blocking her face,” Assistant District Attorney Michael Naughton said in court Friday.

“And Inspector Scheublin also tried to pull open the victim’s belt while she was standing, but he was thwarted when the victim kicked Inspector Scheublin in the testicles,”” Naughton continued. “As Inspector Scheublin and the victim were leaving his office, Inspector Scheublin told the victim, ‘The next time you come to my office, make sure you wear sweatpants.’”

ADA Sarah Clements said there was no CCTV inside the inspector’s office, but cameras outside it corroborated the victim’s timeline. She said the officer had documented bruises and other injuries she sustained during the assault.

In the days following the alleged assault, prosecutors said Scheublin threatened his victim, quoting him as saying: “The last person who made accusations against me — it didn’t go well for them.”

Naughton said the inspector faced additional charges for the thinly veiled threat and said that it demonstrated Scheublin was “willing to employ various methods to try to evade prosecution, including trying to intimidate a victim witness.”

Pushing back against the allegations against his client, Storch accused the woman of having bragged about falsely accusing a superior for financial gain, among other serious accusations he insisted he would later be able to back up.

He said his client was a family man.

“This gentleman, Inspector Scheublin, has been in the Bronx all his life. It’s amazing. He’s never moved out of the borough. He serves the citizens of Bronx County. He loves this borough. He raises his two beautiful 10-year-old twins. He has a stepchild that’s being raised here as well,” Storch said.

“The concept that Inspector Scheublin would utter words like ‘I want to make biracial babies’ is somewhat nonsensical. He has two beautiful daughters with the mother of his child, who is Latina. He has a son with a previous wife that is of Filipino descent. It is just salacious material that’s in a civil lawsuit that now has spilled over into the criminal arena.”

In a statement, DA Clark said the allegations against an NYPD inspector entrusted with the highest standard of integrity were troubling.

“The allegations against this defendant are deeply disturbing. He is accused of attempting to rape a female subordinate in his office and then threatening retaliation if she reported the assault. Alleged abuses of power of this nature demand a thorough investigation and vigorous prosecution,” the DA said.

The woman alleges the incident came after more than a year of being constantly sexually harassed and pestered by Scheublin and that he tried to bully and intimidate her into silence by making work unbearable and ability to balance motherhood impossible, including by altering her schedule to sign her up for 3 a.m. shifts, removing her longtime partner and cutting back on her overtime to the tune of $20,000 in a year.

The officer reported him to the NYPD’s Internal Affairs Bureau after the alleged assault and attempted rape, with IAB then contacting the DA’s office in January 2025.

Scheublin wasn’t demoted to a borough command post until January 2026, having at that point been the subject of a criminal investigation for a year.

Contacted for comment Friday, the NYPD would not immediately say why it took as long as it did to remove Scheublin from his command.

“We 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 — and that’s exactly what happened here,” an NYPD spokesperson said.

The woman’s attorney in the civil suit, John Scola, said the timeline spoke for itself.

“There is no question about what the NYPD knew, or when it knew it,” Scola said Friday.

“This is institutional cowardice, plain and simple. A police department that exists to protect the public could not bring itself to protect one of its own officers from a predator wearing its own uniform. Every day the NYPD left Jeremy Scheublin in command and armed was a day it chose him over her, and a day it told every officer watching that reporting a sexual assault gets you punished while the assailant keeps his gun and his power.”