(Memphis) A
Memphis Police officer is out of jail on bond after being indicted on rape and
official misconduct charges.
30-year-old
Aaron Reinsburg allegedly met a woman on Beale, then met up with her again
later that night and raped her.
But it’s how
the officer may have tracked the woman down that has people concerned.
Police officers
take an oath to protect the community and to uphold the law. They have
resources to do that, but when those tools play a part in a crime, it concerns
a lot people.
“There are
certain standards that police officers must keep,” said Sacia who is concerned
about the allegations.
Reinsburg, a
Memphis Police officer, allegedly used law enforcement databases to find a
woman and then rape her.
“You are a
public servant, here to protect the people and to use what you have to do
something like that is just wrong,” Sacia said.
In January,
Reinsburg met a woman on Beale St. while he was working. An indictment says the
two exchanged numbers. The district attorney says he found the woman’s address
using police resources on his cell phone and went to her house. That’s where a
roommate let the officer in. The woman claims she woke to find Reinsburg raping
her.
“If this truly
did happen, justice has to be served for this woman,” said Sacia. “Rape is a
really, really, really, ugly situation no matter who is involved.”
This isn’t the
first time an officer has used police resources for personal gain. Last
October, Darrell Malone was accused of using a dispatch operator to get the
phone number of a driver who called the police on HIM while he was driving his
motorcycle erratically while off-duty.
Sacia says it’s
this kind of conduct that shakes people’s trust in police, “This is what makes
people step back and go, ‘is this really why they’re here’.”
No one answered
the door at Reinsburg’s Bartlett home on Saturday. He is out of jail on bond
and suspended from the police dept. with pay while under investigation.