BURP-ICO IS UNDIE-COVER
Drunk, near-naked hero cop storms gal’s apt.
HE WENT FROM hero to zero in a few boozy hours.
Shortly after NYPD Officer Eugene Donnelly donned his dress blues for a medal ceremony at One Police Plaza, the cockeyed cop sported only his underwear when found in a stranger’s Bronx apartment.
The polluted policeman, a four-year veteran, allegedly roughed up the female resident during the June 10 bender — and officials say he was too blotto to recognize his whereabouts.
“He was apparently drinking,” a police source told the Daily News of Donnelly. “He was celebrating. He went to stay with a friend.”
Donnelly, 27, was stripped of his gun and shield after receiving the Police Combat Cross — the department’s second-highest honor — and shaking Mayor de Blasio’s hand during Medal Day ceremonies.
“We are aware of the incident and actively investigating with the NYPD,” said Melvin Hernandez, spokesman for the Bronx district attorney’s office. The Internal Affairs Bureau was working with prosecutors, cops said.
Defense attorney Stu London said the facts would exonerate Donnelly.
“The case is in the beginning of the investigation,” said London. “When a thorough investigation has been completed, it will be obvious that my client engaged in no criminal wrongdoing.”
Donnelly was celebrated at the annual NYPD event for his arrest of a teen gunman after a wild gunfight in the Bronx in May 2012.
After the ceremony, he hit the town hard before crashing at a pal’s Woodlawn pad. At some point after the party ended, Donnelly wandered out of the residence wearing only his briefs — and then couldn’t find his way home.
He instead wound up in another apartment on the same floor of the building, sources said. It was unclear how he wound up inside the wrong home, but the woman who lived there was soon upset.
“He has an encounter with a female, and she claims he roughed her up,” the source said. “He was in his underwear when this happened.”
The Bronx DA was considering whether to bring the case to a grand jury — barely two years after Donnelly displayed his bravery in a gunfight while off-duty. Donnelly, who joined the NYPD in July 2010, had been driving to meet a friend with his partner — who was riding in a separate car.
He spied a group of men sprinting from St. James Park as they were chased by a gun-waving teen, cops said. Suspect Javon Julien, 19, popped off a shot as he ran past Donnelly’s car.
The off-duty officer shouted at the suspect to halt, but Julien instead squeezed off another shot that smashed into the driver’s side mirror on Donnelly’s vehicle.
The young cop returned fire, hitting Julien four times before the wounded gunman bolted. Donnelly and his partner helped arrest the bleeding shooter. Julien pleaded guilty to a weapons charge and was sentenced to eight years in prison on May 2, 2013.