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An off-duty NYPD officer faces multiple criminal charges after being arrested Wednesday in the Bronx.
Officials say Joel Perez Leonardo, 25, was arrested around 2:50 a.m. within the 41st Precinct.
The charges against him include menacing, patronizing a person for prostitution, failing to stop at a stop sign, refusing to take a breath test, two counts of driving while impaired and three counts of criminal possession of a weapon.
The circumstances leading to his arrest remain unclear.