An NYPD civilian worker who accused a cop of sexual harassment after he allegedly pulled a gun on her inside police headquarters exchanged express messages with the cop earlier than the incident, the officer’s lawyer claims.
Megan Kwan, 25, exchanged messages about intercourse and joked about creating an OnlyFans account that includes pictures of Officer Quilbvio Espinal, 35, in accordance with the movement filed Wednesday in Manhattan Supreme Court docket looking for entry to her telephone.
Utilizing Fb Messenger between 2025 and 2026, the pair exchanged “many flirtatious and sexual messages, referenced a number of intercourse acts, and posted graphic photos and memes to one another,” in accordance with the court docket submitting.
After the gun incident, Kwan sued the officer and his supervisor Sgt. Jayson Valentin — saying they sexually and racially harassed her. She accused each males of proposing threesomes — Espinal requested for one together with his spouse, the swimsuit alleged.
Kwan, who’s deaf, despatched Espinal a screenshot of a tweet which learn: “U Haven’t heard some bizarre s–t till u f–ok a deaf lady. Appeared like i used to be beating a child seal,” in accordance with the court docket doc.
Different messages contain oral intercourse and lewd references to making ready for a sexual encounter, in accordance with the submitting that calls for Kwan “produce her mobile phone for a forensic extraction of all pictures and movies of Officer Espinal.”
“Her personal texts shed a highlight on the reality about their relationship and that highlight reveals that officer Espinal by no means would have carried out something to place this sexting companion in worry of bodily hurt,” the cop’s lawyer, Robert Gottlieb, mentioned, claiming that prosecutors turned over 200 pages of messages the 2 exchanged.
Espinal shared a meme of a suggestively formed pastry with icing, to which Kwan allegedly made a vulgar response, “Can’t waste no drip drip,” in accordance with the paperwork.
In a single Feb. 19 message, Kwan reported that she had “sufficient pictures of [Officer Espinal] to create an OF account,” which is believed to be an abbreviation for OnlyFans, a web site devoted to user-created pornography, the swimsuit states.
“She additionally instructed Officer Espinal that she would use Chinese language synthetic intelligence know-how to investigate the a number of digital depictions that she has of him with a purpose to create laptop generated pornographic representations of him for this web site,” in accordance with the submitting.
Espinal is dealing with menacing and official misconduct fees and pleaded not responsible. He was positioned on modified responsibility, which implies his gun and protect had been eliminated.
Kwan says she began working on the division as a school intern in 2021 and have become full-time in its IT division in 2025.
Kwan’s lawyer, John Scola, mentioned Espinal repeatedly instructed her he needed an “Asian spouse,” referred to as her his “child momma,” and boasted of his “Asian fetish,” sending her pornographic and racist movies.
“A sworn police officer pointed a loaded, department-issued firearm at my consumer – a deaf civilian he outranked — inside their office, and he was indicted for it,” Scola mentioned.
He referred to as the movement “an effort to intimidate a lady who reported and armed officer and to place her personal life on trial as an alternative of his conduct.”
