A Bronx judge has rejected the plea deal of an off-duty police officer accused of attacking a female MTA worker last December.
Police says Officer Mirjan Lolja was coming home from a nightclub around 2:30 a.m. last December 23. They say he got into a verbal dispute with the employee on the Tremont Avenue subway platform in the Bronx. He then allegedly attacked her and ran off.
According to police, Lolja later turned himself in and was charged with misdemeanor assault and harassment.
A Bronx Supreme Court judge turned down the prosecutors' request that Lolja attend anger management and stay away from the victim for two years.
The Transit Workers Union says he is a criminal and should be treated like one.
"Transit workers don't come to work to be assaulted," said John Samuelsen, president of TWU Local 100. "And to be assaulted by a cop is an absolute betrayal of that officer, and he should be held accountable."
Lolja was suspended without pay from the 25th Precinct in Harlem after the incident. He is set to be back in court in February.