Officer Eugene Donnelly was charged with misdemeanorassault and burglary, as well as suspended from the NYPD without pay, after thebizarre June incident in which he broke into a woman’s apartment and beat her.BY RoccoParascandolaNEW YORK DAILY NEWS /Monday, August 4, 2014, 3:42 PMA Bronx cop lauded on Medal Day for his heroics hasbeen charged for breaking into a Bronx woman’s home and drunkenly assaultingher just hours after being honored, police said Monday.The Daily News in June reported that Officer EugeneDonnelly was placed on modified duty — stripped of his gun and badge — afterthe startling June 11 incident.Sources said Donnelly, 27, had begun drinking thenight before in celebration of getting the Police Combat Cross, the NYPD’ssecond-highest honor, during a ceremony at One Police Plaza.He crashed at a friend’s apartment in Woodlawn, thenat some point woke up and left the building clad only in his underwear.He returned a short time later and, apparentlymistaking another apartment for his friend’s, broke down the door, sourcessaid.Donnelly had received the Police Combat Cross, theNYPD’s second-highest honor. He has been suspended by the agency without pay.The loud bang awakened the 30-year-old woman wholives there, but before she had a chance to react he allegedly beat her whileshe was in her bed, punching her more than 20 times as she tried to get away.Inexplicably, sources said, he then drank from amilk container that was in her refrigerator before fleeing the scene.He was captured on surveillance video that policerecovered and put on a wanted poster.The flyer was posted at some locations in the Bronxbefore police realized the wanted man was Donnelly.Donnelly, who earned the Police Combat Cross forarresting a gunman who had fired at him in the Bronx in May 2012, was chargedMonday with misdemeanor assault and burglary.He was suspended from the NYPD without pay.