A NEW York City police officer, a former officer and a civilian, charged with misdemeanors in February for their involvement in the assault of an Irish immigrant who lost his sight in one eye in Yonkers in September, were hit with an additional charge on Wednesday, May 14.Assistant District Attorney Michael F. Hughes, chief of the Public Integrity Bureau of the Westchester County District Attorney's office, filed the new charge - third-degree reckless assault, also a misdemeanor - against NYPD officer Michael McGhee, 30, former officer, Thomas Wimmer, 25 and their friend, Patrick Tully, 26, at Yonkers City Court. All three men were present in court for their arraignment of the new charge.The previous charge filed against the men, accused to assaulting Limerick native Peter Cummins, 26, on McLean Avenue in Yonkers in September, was third-degree assault.Cummins was left with a cracked skull, nasal fractures and permanent loss of sight to his left eye, after the assault, which took place just after 3 a.m., on September 14, 2007.The investigation, which involved three law enforcement agencies, led to five people being arrested and charged in February. Three of the officers, who all pleaded not guilty, were suspended without pay at the arraignment while Wimmer, who resigned from the force after the assault, and Tully, also pleaded innocent.According to the district attorney's office in Westchester County, the fight erupted on the sidewalk of McLean Avenue just as two New York City police officers on patrol arrived at the scene, after crossing over into the Yonkers border. (McLean Avenue is on the border of the Bronx and Yonkers). Patrol officers Stella Ibanez, 39, and Jeffrey Alicea, 32, who came upon the fight while on duty, immediately intervened, handcuffing McGhee. According to prosecutors, as soon as McGhee identified himself as a police officer he was released.It later emerged that Ibanez and Alicea agreed to devise a story that, if asked, they would say the person involved in the attack was not a police officer. They were each charged with two counts of official misconduct in February.All officers have been suspended without pay. All five defendants, if convicted, face up to a year in jail. The judge also issued an order of protection barring all five defendants from having any contact with Cummins or the seven witnesses who have come forward in the case.Ibanez and Alicea are due back in court on June 20. McGhee, Wimmer and Tully's case is adjourned until July 17.