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After Handcuffing, Officer to Be Charged With Unlawful Imprisonment

A Rikers Island correction officer did some extracurricular handcuffing Thursday night and was arrested for it, the police said.

The cuffee was the correction officer's girlfriend's 25-year-old daughter, whom the officer, Luis Leonard, is accused of placing in cuffs during an argument in an apartment on Thieriot Avenue in the Bronx, the police said.

Mr. Leonard, 46, is to be charged with unlawful imprisonment, the police said.