MANLIUS, N.Y. -- A U.S. Air Force colonel based in Rome was reassigned after state police charged him with raping a girl.



Andrew W. Green, 49, of Jamesville, was arrested Wednesday and charged with raping a girl younger than 17 years old, according to the New York State Police. The rape occurred in Manlius, said troopers.

Green, a division chief with the Air Force Research Laboratory, has been assigned "other duties commensurate with his grade" pending the outcome of the investigation, said Daryl Mayer, media operations section chief for Ohio's Wright-Patterson Air Force Base told the Observer-Dispatch. He declined to comment further.

Green is out of the Onondaga County Justice Center on a $5,000 bond.