COP BUSTED AS A RAPIST

The New York Post by LEONARD GREENE and DAN MANGAN

May 2, 2008 -- A rookie NYPD officer faces rape charges after allegedly forcing himself on a sleeping woman in a Manhattan hotel room, The Post has learned. Kevin Johnson, of Brooklyn, was busted Tuesday morning after the purported attack in the Gershwin Hotel at 7 E. 27th St., law-enforcement sources said.

Johnson, 27, met several women who were attending a hairstylists' convention at a bar Monday night. The group later went to the women's room at the Gershwin, a source said. Johnson had sex with one of those women, while the others were asleep or out of the room, sources said. Authorities said Johnson left the bed of the woman with whom he had sex, crawled next to one of the other sleeping women, and raped her. Another woman in the room awoke and began yelling before calling 911. Johnson, assigned to the 73rd Precinct in Brownsville, was arrested at the scene. He was suspended without pay and arraigned Wednesday on multiple rape and sexual-abuse charges. He was released on $10,000 bond. Additional reporting by Peter Cox