According to law enforcement officials, two police officers who were accused of dumping a teenager in a swamp in Staten Island on Halloween have been charged on Monday with 33 counts.

The officers, Richard Danese and Thomas Elliassen, were arrested last fall and were charged with first-degree unlawful imprisonment and endangering the welfare of a child, according to the prosecutors. The maximum sentence for unlawful imprisonment is four years in prison.

Danese and Elliassen grabbed 14-year-old Rayshawn Moreno, a freshman at Port Richmond High School, for tossing eggs at cars on Halloween night.

Allegedly the police officers didn’t arrest the boy, instead took him in their car and removed his shirt and shoes leaving him 2 miles away at a swamp.

The teenager said that he and his friends were tossing eggs at each other, his lawyer said.

He said that as soon as police left he ran to a strip mall where he asked a security guard to call his family.

Officers said that they only wanted to scare the teen and that they came back minutes after leaving him there.

Rayshawn’s family filed a complaint and the two police officers were arrested on November 2, the New York Times reports.

Officer Danese was also charged in Brooklyn in February for using an NYPD computer without authorization in order to find some bad information about Moreno and his father, according to prosecutors.

Jason Leventhal, an attorney for the Moreno family, said: "Let this be a loud message that these officers committed a felony and that they are not above the law," New York Daily News reports.

Leventhal also said that the officers, who are white, used a racial language with the teenager, who is black, and said that they will beat him. He added that the case was minimized by the prosecutors and charges like kidnapping and bias crimes were not pursued.

These allegations were rejected by William Smith, a spokesman for District Attorney Daniel M. Donovan Jr., who said that the case was fully investigated and brought forward to a grand jury.