FILE - In this April 19, 2015 file photo, Paz de la Huerta attends the Tribeca Film Festival world premiere of "Bare" at the SVA Theatre in New York. The actress accused Weinstein of raping her two times... (Associated Press) 
 
 FILE - In this April 19, 2015 file photo, Paz de la Huerta attends the Tribeca Film Festival world premiere of "Bare" at the SVA Theatre in New York. The actress accused Weinstein of raping her two times in 2010 in a CBS News report that aired Thursday, Nov. 2, 2017. The Manhattan district attorney’s... (Associated Press) 
 
 FILE - In this April 19, 2015 file photo, Paz de la Huerta attends the Tribeca Film Festival world premiere of "Bare" at the SVA Theatre in New York. The actress accused Weinstein of raping her two times in 2010 in a CBS News report that aired Thursday, Nov. 2, 2017. The Manhattan district attorney’s... (Associated Press) FILE - In this April 19, 2015 file photo, Paz de la Huerta attends the Tribeca Film Festival world premiere of "Bare" at the SVA Theatre in New York. The actress accused Weinstein of raping her two times... (Associated Press) 
 
 NEW YORK (AP) — An actress' rape allegations against movie mogul Harvey Weinstein are credible, and investigators are gathering evidence for a criminal case, New York City police said Friday. 
 
 Chief of Detectives Robert Boyce said Friday that investigators have interviewed actress Paz de la Huerta, who publicly accused Weinstein of raping her twice in her apartment in 2010. 
 
 Boyce said detectives found the "Boardwalk Empire" actress' story believable and corroborated portions of her account. 
 
 She called police on Oct. 26, he said. 
 
 The factors that made her story credible included: "The ability to articulate each and every minute of the crime, where she was, where they met, where this happened and what he did," he said. 
 
 An email message sent to Weinstein representative Sallie Hofmeister was not immediately returned. 
 
 De la Huerta told CBS News that the first rape occurred in October 2010 after Weinstein gave her a ride home from a party, insisted on having a drink in her apartment and forced himself on her. She said the second rape occurred in December 2010 after Weinstein came to her apartment. She had been drinking and was not in a condition to give consent, CBS reported the actress said. 
 
 Speaking at a police briefing, Boyce said of Weinstein: "If this person was still in new York, and it was recent, we'd go right away and make the arrest. No doubt. But we're talking about a 7-year-old case. And we have to move forward gathering evidence first." 
 
 Investigators could seek an arrest warrant, which requires a court order, or hand the evidence over to prosecutors to put the allegations to a grand jury to seek an indictment. 
 
 The Manhattan district attorney's office said a senior prosecutor has been assigned to investigate allegations but didn't comment further. 
 
 The Associated Press does not typically identify people who say they are victims of sexual assault unless they speak publicly, which de la Huerta has done. 
 
 The investigation comes a month after The New York Times published an expose of sexual harassment allegations against Weinstein, leading to his firing from the company he co-founded and his expulsion from the organization that bestows the Academy Awards. 

 In the fall of 2010, actress Paz de la Huerta was at her highest point professionally. Raised in SoHo and on the Lower East Side by a father descended from Spanish nobility and a mother who is a policy analyst on women’s issues in Third World countries, de la Huerta had been acting and modeling since her teens, and now seemed to be breaking through. The year before she had co-starred in Gaspar Noé’s Enter the Void, which had recently opened in the U.S. And her recurring role on HBO’s just-premiered Prohibition-period gangster drama, Boardwalk Empire, as mistress to Steve Buscemi’s Enoch “Nucky” Thompson, had earned her critical praise. 
 
 One night that November, de la Huerta ran into Harvey Weinstein at the Top of the Standard bar at the Standard, High Line hotel in Manhattan. She had first met Weinstein while making the movie Cider House Rules when she was 14. De la Huerta had communicated with the producer over the years after their first meeting. At around age 21, she said, Weinstein sent her some science-fiction books and suggested she might be right for a role in one of his projects. When they met at the hotel in 2010 de la Huerta was 26 and Weinstein was at the height of his powers as an Oscar-winning producer. The Weinstein Company was about to enter a streak that would see it win best picture at the Academy Awards two years in a row, first for The King’s Speech in 2011 and then The Artist in 2012. Weinstein offered de la Huerta a ride home to Tribeca. In de la Huerta’s account of the night, Weinstein arrived at her apartment demanding to come inside and have a drink. “Things got very uncomfortable very fast,” the actress, now 33, told Vanity Fair in a phone interview on Wednesday. 
 
 “Immediately when we got inside the house, he started to kiss me and I kind of brushed [him] away,” de la Huerta said. “Then he pushed me onto the bed and his pants were down and he lifted up my skirt. I felt afraid. . . . It wasn’t consensual . . . It happened very quickly. . . . He stuck himself inside me. . . . When he was done he said he’d be calling me. I kind of just laid on the bed in shock.” 
 
 De la Huerta described a second assault that allegedly happened in late December 2010, when Weinstein showed up in her building lobby after she came home from a photo shoot. The actress said she had been drinking, and was frightened by Weinstein, who had been repeatedly calling her, despite her asking him to leave her alone. “He hushed me and said, ‘Let’s talk about this in your apartment,’” de la Huerta said. “I was in no state. I was so terrified of him. . . . I did say no, and when he was on top of me I said, ‘I don’t want to do this.’ He kept humping me and it was disgusting. He’s like a pig. . . . He raped me.” 
 
 Afterward, de la Huerta said, “I laid there feeling sick. He looked at me and said, ‘I’ll put you in a play.’ He left and I never heard from him again. He knew he had done a bad thing.”
– The latest accusation against Harvey Weinstein could represent prosecutors' best chance to send him to prison. Boardwalk Empire actress Paz de la Huerta says Weinstein raped her twice in New York in 2010, which is within the state's statute of limitations, and the NYPD said Friday it is gathering evidence for a criminal case based on her accusations. The actress tells Vanity Fair that Weinstein first assaulted her in Oct. 2010, when he offered her a ride home from a party and demanded to come in for a drink. When he got inside, she says, he pushed her onto a bed and lifted up her skirt. "I was terrified," she says. "It wasn't consensual ... he stuck himself inside me." In December that year, she says he turned up at her apartment after she had been drinking and forced himself on her again. " I said, 'I don't want to do this,'" she says. "He kept humping me and it was disgusting. He's like a pig ... He raped me." After the second assault, she says, "He looked at me and said, 'I'll put you in a play.' He left and I never heard from him again. He knew he had done a bad thing." NYPD detective Nicholas DiGaudio, who is leading the department's investigation of Weinstein, earlier told Vanity Fair that he has spoken to de la Huerta and prosecutors are considering charging Weinstein. "I believe based on my interviews with Paz that from the NYPD standpoint we have enough to make an arrest," he says. The NYPD later confirmed that, with the chief of detectives saying de la Huerta's story is credible and portions have been corroborated, the AP reports. The office of Manhattan DA Cyrus R. Vance Jr. tells CBS that a senior sex crimes prosecutor has been assigned to the case. Weinstein is also being investigated by authorities in London, Los Angeles, and Beverly Hills.