Man who posed as cop and raped girls pleads guilty

The Far Rockaway man who posed as a law enforcement officer to lure two women to a Queens motel last month has pleaded guilty to raping them.
Eric McCoy, 37, of 147 Beach 26th Street in Far Rockaway, pleaded guilty to two counts of first-degree rape. He now faces up to 15 years in prison.
In pleading guilty, McCoy admitted that on the afternoon of December 4, 2006, he approached a 27-year-old woman as she exited a bus in the vicinity of Rockaway and Sutphin Boulevards, produced an I.D. card and identified himself as an investigator.
As he questioned her, McCoy took the victim’s bag and planted a packet of what appeared to be marijuana in the bag. When he pulled out the packet, McCoy placed the victim against a wall and spoke into a black walkie-talkie - giving her the impression that he was talking to other officers.
When she began to panic, McCoy told the victim that he would take out his gun and shoot her if she moved and informed her that she was in serious trouble and subject to arrest. At this point, the defendant told her that he was taking her in for questioning at a surveillance room where other officers were stationed. They then took a livery cab to the Airport Motor Inn, located at 153-99 Rockaway Boulevard, where he beat her with a belt and forced her to have sex with him under the threat of being arrested.
McCoy also admitted that, on January 2, 2007, he approached a 17-year-old girl at the corner of Main Street and Union Turnpike and, once again, displayed an I.D. card and identified himself as an investigator. Stating that he had a gun, he told the teenager that she needed to accompany him for questioning. McCoy then took his latest victim to the Kew Motor Inn, located at 139-01 Grand Central Parkway in Jamaica, where he proceeded to question her. As part of his ruse, he again spoke into a walkie-talkie, wrote notes during his questioning of her, searched her backpack and temporarily took her I.D. and cell phone.
As before, McCoy informed her that she was in serious trouble and that if she did not cooperate with him she would be arrested and be unable to make bail, she would not see her parents anymore, and that he could shoot her at any time. As in the earlier motel incident, the defendant forced the victim to have sex with him under the threat of being arrested.