Two NYPD cops were accused Friday of covering up a drunken car crash involving a fellow officer in Manhattan.

Officers Michael Caligiuri, 31, and Ryan McLoughlin, 30, turned themselves in at the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office Friday morning and were arraigned on charges including tampering with evidence and official misconduct.

Both defendants, who are from the 10th precinct in Chelsea, pleaded not guilty before Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Cori Weston.

Dozens of cops filled most of the seats inside the courtroom in a sign of support during the brief appearance — as their union leader blasted the case as an “overreach” by DA Alvin Bragg.

The case stems from an October 2024 car accident in Chelsea involving an off-duty NYPD officer, Eli Garcia, whom prosecutors claim Caligiuri and McLoughlin went to “great lengths” to shield from accountability.

The cops are accused of taking steps to avoid their bodyworn cameras and of not trying to stop Garcia when he fled the crash scene. The NYPD tracked down Garcia a few hours later and charged him with drunk driving.

“These police officers did their job,”  Police Benevolent Association President Patrick Hendry insisted after the hearing, vowing that both officers would be cleared of wrongdoing.

“We should not be here today,” he said. “This case should have never been brought before a grand jury.”

Caligiuri, who joined the force in 2019, and McLoughlin, who’s been with the NYPD since 2022, were responding to a 911 call on Oct. 16, 2024 in which the victim reported that a suspected drunk driver had rammed his white Infiniti SUV into the left front fender of the victim’s vehicle at West 26th Street and Eighth Avenue.

The victim told the responding officers that the driver was drunk and had flashed his police badge and identified himself as a cop. He also had an NYPD-issued parking placard placed on the vehicle’s dashboard.

Garcia, who was off-duty at the time, allegedly had “droopy” eyes and didn’t speak clearly when he gave Caligiuri his NYPD identification card — and he also struggled to provide his driver’s license and could not find his car’s registration, according to court documents.

But prosecutors claim Caliguri failed to question Garcia about his drunken state and “positioned his body-worn camera so that it would not fully capture” their interaction.

Caliguri and McLoughlin began texting each other at the scene with their personal phones about not knowing what to do in such a situation, before Caliguri took off his bodyworn camera while McLoughlin held it for him, prosecutors said.

“Idk what to do,” McLoughlin allegedly texted Caligiuri, who responded, “It’s bad, man.”

Caliguri then called a supervising lieutenant away from the bodycam so his voice would not be captured, prosecutors claimed. He took back the camera following the phone call. 

McLoughlin texted Caliguri “what he say,” but Caligiuri didn’t respond — and Garcia drove off soon after, leaving behind his driver’s license, prosecutors alleged.

Prosecutors claim neither officer attempted to stop the vehicle other than waving their flashlights toward the rear of the car.

A few hours later, an NYPD duty captain went to Garcia’s house and observed the cop smelling like alcohol and charged him with DWI after he failed a driver’s testing unit, according to the criminal complaint.

No one was injured in the wreck.

Garcia pleaded guilty in December 2024 and was sentenced to a conditional discharge. He later resigned from the NYPD.

Hendry said the case was “another overreach” by Bragg — accusing the DA of “tarnishing” the two cops’ reputations.

“This is a total witch hunt,” said a police source familiar with the investigation. “The cop did nothing wrong. He called his supervisor to report the incident.”

Another officer familiar with the case said that if Caliguri had wanted to let Garcia go “the last thing he would do is call his supervisor and get him involved.”

“Whoever did this investigation should be embarrassed if they ever were a cop,” the source said.

In a statement, Bragg said that the cops “allegedly went to great lengths to protect a fellow officer from accountability.”

“This type of conduct significantly harms the public trust in law enforcement,” he said. “Everyone must be treated the same under the law, regardless of their position or background.”

The NYPD said that it initiated the investigation before turning it over to the DA’s office.

The DA is prosecuting the case along with members of the NYPD’s Internal Affairs Bureau.

Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Tavish DeAtley offered the cops a three-year conditional discharge conviction if they pleaded guilty to tampering with physical evidence and two counts of official misconduct.