Minneapolis cop gets year for sending nude photos

Minneapolis police officer has been sentenced to a year in the Hennepin County workhouse for sending nude photographs of himself to two teenage girls.

Thirty-three-year-old Bradley Schnickel pleaded guilty in July to two felony counts involving two girls under 16. The sentence was arranged when he pleaded guilty.

Schnickel also faces 14 charges in Anoka County for allegedly using social media to try to lure girls into sexual encounters. His trial there is scheduled for February.

convicted a Little Silver police office

FREEHOLD, N.J. (AP) - A jury in Monmouth County has convicted a Little Silver police officer of official misconduct and assault in the beating of a man.
Steven Solari went to check on the man at the request of the man's mother in 2009 but ended up arresting him following a scuffle. Evidence presented during the trial showed Solari used pepper spray and the man sustained a head injury.
Prosecutors say Solari took the man to police headquarters for booking instead of to a hospital. Testimony indicated Solari punched the handcuffed man because he would not pose for a mug shot.
Prosecutors say Solari tried to cover up what happened.
Solari faces up to 10 years in prison when he's sentenced in January.

El Monte police officer accused of raping transsexual woman

 transsexual woman has filed a federal civil rights claim alleging she was raped by an on-duty El Monte police officer last year.

The complaint, filed Oct. 18, seeks unspecified damages and lists El Monte and an unnamed police officer as defendants. It also named up to eight additional unidentified defendants.
Court documents indicate the alleged attack took place between 4 a.m. and 6 a.m. Oct. 23, 2012, as the victim was walking at the northeast corner of Central and Garvey avenues.
The uniformed officer is accused of pulling up alongside the transsexual woman and ordering her to lean into the driver-side window of his marked patrol car. Fearing for her safety if she refused, the victim complied, according to the complaint.

“El Monte Police Officer John Doe groped her breasts,” the complaint alleged. “He then asked plaintiff if she was a ‘nasty she-male.’ Plaintiff responded that she was transsexual.”
The complaint goes on to allege that the officer ordered the victim into a nearby alley, then ordered her to follow him to a deserted and poorly lit loading dock area in the 10000 block of Garvey Avenue.

Once there, “El Monte Police Officer John Doe got out of his car and ordered plaintiff to perform oral sex on him.” according to the complaint
“After a few minutes, El Monte Police Officer John Doe told plaintiff to stand up and bend over the trunk of the police car,” the complaint stated. The officer allegedly told the victim in course language that he was going to rape her.

The officer called the victim by a pejorative name and told her, “you like this, don’t you,” as the assault continued, court documents claim.
Once the assault was over, the officer allegedly told the woman to “get out of here,” before leaving the area himself in his patrol car.

After walking away from the area, the woman returned to the scene and collected a condom discarded by the officer during the alleged attack, according to the complaint. She turned over the condom to Los Angeles County sheriff’s investigators, who said they are looking into the allegation.

“At all times, plaintiff felt threatened by El Monte Police Officer John Doe’s actions and only complied with his directions out of fear for her physical safety,” the complaint stated. “At no point did El Monte Police Officer John Doe have probable cause to detain the plaintiff.”

Country Club Hills officer convicted after giving woman choice: sex with him or DWI arrest

The Country Club Hills police officer accused of telling a woman motorist she could either have sex with him or be arrested for drunken driving has been convicted of corruption.

Timothy H. Jones, 50, of Troy, Mo., was found guilty Friday in St. Louis County Circuit Court of a felony — acceding to corruption by a public servant.

Prosecutors will be asking for a four-year prison sentence.

According to court documents, Jones pulled over a 24-year-old woman on Nov. 10, 2010, on suspicion of drunken driving on Interstate 70 near Lucas and Hunt Road. He had her perform a field-sobriety test, then told her she could either be arrested or have sex with him, authorities say. He then drove her in his patrol car to her home, where they engaged in “several sexual acts,” court documents say.

The woman apparently left her cellphone in Jones’ patrol car. When police began researching to whom it belonged, they reached the woman’s mother, who made accusations about what had happened. St. Louis County police launched an investigation. Jones stayed on the force during the inquiry. 

Richmond Va. police officer charged with indecent exposure

A Richmond police officer, David M. Ruland of Chesterfield County, has been charged with indecent exposure, according to online court records. A woman “observed Ruland in his vehicle with his genitals exposed” in the Chesterfield Towne Center parking lot, according to Chesterfield police spokeswoman Elizabeth Caroon.

officer charged in alleged peeping

A Mt. Pleasant reserve police officer was arrested after being caught peering into a teenager’s apartment window — the second time he was investigated for this type of behavior, according to police officials.

Ezra Depriest Martin, 44, 812 Hughes St., Spring Hill, was arrested Tuesday and charged with observation without consent — a misdemeanor. He was jailed and released on $2,000 bond Wednesday.

Spring Hill Police Department Lt. Justin Whitwell said officers were called about 10:30 p.m. to Walden Creek Trace Apartments on Port Royal Road in Spring Hill. Witnesses at the complex reported a suspicious man looking into apartment windows, Whitwell said.

A Spring Hill officer arrived on the scene and witnessed Martin looking into the window, catching him “red-handed,” Whitwell said. On the other side of the window — a 19-year-old girl.

“He just said he was out walking around the building, but of course, he did not live anywhere in that area, and his vehicle was actually parked in that area,” Whitwell said about Martin’s alibi.

Martin lives several miles away from the complex, Whitwell added.

The  MPPD reserve officer was also involved in what officers called a similar incident.

On June 29, 2012, Martin was observed sitting in a car at the Burtonwood subdivision in Spring Hill looking at females through binoculars, Whitwell said. The females called police and reported Martin, stating they felt uncomfortable.

Spring Hill officers arrived on the scene, and Martin was found with binoculars in his possession, Whitwell said. Martin said they were part of his police equipment, and he carried them with him in his car, Whitwell added.

Martin was not arrested in that incident, but his name was documented in a police report, Whitwell said.

Tuckerman police officer charged with rape

TUCKERMAN, AR (KAIT) – A  Tuckerman police officer is facing rape charges following an investigation by Arkansas State Police. Steven Slagley was arrested and charged with rape and second degree sexual assault.

According to information from Arkansas State Police Lt. Brant Tosh, Prosecuting Attorney Henry Boyce asked state police to investigate allegations of sexual assault committed by Slagley. The prosecutor received information about the allegations from Tuckerman Police Chief Jonathon Tubbs.

A state police investigator spoke with one of the victims in September who accused Slagley of rape. She told the officer that she moved into the River View Apartments on August 2. On August 27, the woman told the investigator Slagley came to her apartment to bring her some cleaning supplies.

During the meeting the woman said Slagley kissed her while he shook her hand. He then pulled her into a bedroom, pulled her pants down and raped her, according to statements in the affidavit.
The investigator also met with another woman who said Slagley forced her into the bedroom of a different apartment. On that occasion, which happened days prior to the August 27 incident, the woman told police Slagley rubbed "his crotch against her buttocks". The woman said she was able to lock herself in the bedroom and Slagley let himself out.

HPD cop pleads guilty in rape case

Houston police officer accused of raping a handcuffed woman in the back of his patrol car pleaded guilty Tuesday to attempted sexual assault in exchange for 10 years in prison.
Adan Carranza, 33, was taken in to custody after a brief hearing in front of state District Judge Ruben Guerrero.
"He has accepted responsibility," his attorney Rocket Rosen said after the plea. "This was obviously a major, major lapse in judgment."
Carranza worked for HPD for three years before the attack on June 18, 2012.
Prosecutors said the Carranza responded to a fender bender on Dairy Ashford. He handcuffed one of the drivers and put her in the back of his patrol car, then waited for the other drivers to leave.
After the two were alone, the woman said he raped her in the backseat while in uniform and wearing his gunbelt, according to court records. He then took her to jail for reckless driving. Investigators said DNA and video evidence confirmed the woman's story.
Rosen said he was hopeful his client will be paroled in two to three years. Carranza could also be freed after six months if the judge agrees to "shock probation," which is sometimes used to scare first offenders straight without making them serve their entire sentence.
When he is released, Carranza will be barred from having a peace officer's license in Texas for life. He will also have to register as a sex offender for the next 20 years.

"In this case, we felt the interest of justice was served by the 10 year sentence," said Assistant Harris County District Attorney Heyward Carter.

police officer charged on alleged sexual misconduct

A Colville police officer was charged Friday with seven criminal counts, including four felonies, stemming from a string of alleged sexual encounters with women while in uniform dating back to 2011.

Rex Newport, 45, has been formally accused of first-degree burglary and unlawful imprisonment, custodial sexual misconduct and making false or misleading statements to a public servant, according to documents filed in Stevens County Superior Court on Friday afternoon. Knowledge of Newport’s behavior came to the attention of authorities after a woman claimed she’d been sexually assaulted by the 15-year veteran of the Colville police force at her apartment in March.

According to court documents, the woman alleges Newport entered her apartment after she returned home from a night of drinking at a Colville bar. Newport drank some of her alcohol, then left on a radio call for another incident, according to allegations made in the court documents. The woman said Newport later returned, handcuffed her and raped her, court documents say.

Newport told investigators, who were also looking into claims the officer took off his gun belt and put it around the woman, that the claims were a “hundred percent nonsense,” according to court records.

DNA taken from the scene places Newport in the woman’s apartment and indicates sexual contact, according to court records.

Evidence collected during the investigation indicate a pattern in which Newport would contact intoxicated women coming home from bars. Multiple women claimed Newport pulled them over for what appeared to be stops for driving under the influence. He then had sex with them, they say, and the DUI claims were never investigated.

The Stevens County Sheriff’s Office and FBI collaborated in the investigation. One woman claimed that after the sexual contact, Newport continued to send her unwanted and sexually explicit text messages.

Newport has denied the allegations made against him. He remains on administrative leave from the Colville Police Department.

A pilot who made an emergency landing at a municipal airport runway has also sued Newport and the city for alleged use of excessive force, according to previous reporting.

The burglary and unlawful imprisonment charges carry firearm enhancements because Newport was armed with a service handgun at the time of the alleged crime. The charges hold potential maximum sentences ranging from a year to life in prison.

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Some charges dropped against Tarpon Springs officer accused of rape

Several charges have been dropped against a former police officer accused of twice picking up women on Clearwater streets, flashing a badge and raping them, court records show, but other criminal charges remain.

Larry Kobielnik, a former Tarpon Springs officer, was arrested July 27, accused of threatening a woman with a badge and firearm and raping her in his Dunedin home the day before, the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office said.

Days later, another woman who saw Kobielnik's photo in the news identified him as her attacker. On May 13, a man picked her up near S Hillcrest Avenue near Clearwater, told her he was an officer, then handcuffed and raped her, the Sheriff's Office said.

But charges in that offense were dropped after the victim told inconsistent stories, according to court documents released to the Tampa Bay Times.

The woman reported the rape June 1 when she was hospitalized for abdominal pain. She told a deputy her attacker had showed her an oval-shaped badge.

But when a prosecutor interviewed her in August, she said a badge was sitting atop the dining room table in Kobielnik's home. When asked to describe the badge, the woman admitted she never saw it. "She stated that all she saw was a folded wallet," records state, "but she never opened it or saw a badge."

Charges of sexual battery, kidnapping, and impersonation of an officer related to the May 13 offense were dropped in August.

But charges in the July case remain, including sexual battery and impersonation of an officer.

In 2002, Kobielnik was also suspected of a similar crime in Tarpon Springs when a woman accused him of raping her behind an office building. But with no DNA evidence, prosecutors declined to file charges.

Kobielnik, 37, was an officer for the Transportation Security Administration, but was fired after his arrest. He also was a Tarpon Springs police officer from April 2000 to May 2001.

He remained at the Pinellas County Jail on Wednesday in lieu of $110,000 bail

 

Edison cop charged with propositioning woman for sex after responding to 911 call

An Edison police officer faces multiple departmental charges and the possible loss of his job for allegedly returning to the scene of an emergency call to proposition a woman for sex.

Anthony Sarni, 39, had just finished his shift and was still in uniform when he drove to the Extended Stay America hotel in Edison’s Raritan Center to find the woman, whom he had met earlier in the night after a disturbance there, according to three law enforcement officials with knowledge of the case.

Once back at the hotel, Sarni allegedly pressed the woman to engage in a sexual encounter, according to the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the case. The woman rebuffed him and filed a complaint, they said.

"She felt he was being inappropriate and using his authority as a police officer to coerce her," one of the officials said.

Sarni, a 10-year veteran who earns more than $118,000, was suspended with pay last week. He was charged administratively with engaging in inappropriate conduct, lying to investigators and other counts. The charging documents indicate he will be fired if he is found guilty at a departmental hearing.

Sarni could not be reached for comment.

His lawyer, Peter Paris, declined to address the charges, saying in a brief statement that internal disciplinary matters are confidential under guidelines set by the state Attorney General’s Office.

Sarni is the third Edison officer to be charged either internally or criminally over the past five months, contributing to a cloud of misconduct that has lingered over the department for decades.

In June, Patrolman Alan Varady was charged with drunken driving after he was seen swilling beer in his police cruiser. Varady, a 27-year veteran, filed for retirement a month later.

Another officer, Michael Dotro, was charged with five counts of attempted murder in May for allegedly setting fire to his captain’s home while the man and his family slept inside.

Dotro, 36, later was slapped with additional counts that included buying marijuana while in uniform, conspiring to sell the drug, slashing a woman’s tires and accessing the department’s records database for personal use.

The investigation into Dotro’s activities prior to the fire continues. What’s more, it could ensnare one or more of his fellow officers on the night shift.

Dotro, the law enforcement officials said, is accused of engaging in a campaign of harassment against a North Brunswick police officer who had ticketed one of his relatives.

Dotro allegedly enlisted colleagues to aid in the harassment of the man, who lives in Edison. Last month, investigators obtained warrants to seize the cell phones of officers on Dotro’s squad, the officials said. The probe is now focusing on two of the officers, according to the officials.

The incident involving Sarni occurred in April and was the subject of a lengthy investigation and review by Edison’s internal affairs unit and the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office, which concluded the officer’s actions did not rise to the level of a crime, the law enforcement officials said.

Police Chief Thomas Bryan confirmed Sarni’s suspension but declined to discuss the case, saying it was an internal matter.

The complaint marked the second allegation of sexual misconduct this year against Sarni, a married father of four.

Previously, a female motorist contended Sarni propositioned her after pulling her over in Edison, the officials said. Internal affairs investigators concluded the allegation could not be sustained, meaning it could neither be proved nor disproved.

Sal Della Fave, president of the Policemen’s Benevolent Association in Edison, said he was shocked by the allegations against his colleague.

"I know Tony Sarni well, and he has always been a very good police officer," Della Fave said. "Whatever the outcome of the investigation, he will have to live with that, but Tony has always been an upstanding guy."

Addressing the broader issue of continuing misconduct, Della Fave said the union has worked with department leaders to reform the department.

"There are always going to be a few bad apples in every bunch," he said. "The majority of our people here — the officers and the command staff — are all hard-working mothers and fathers who want to do their job and do what’s best for the town."

Trial for ex-Sacramento officer accused in assault

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- The case against a former Sacramento police officer accused of repeatedly sexually assaulting an elderly woman while off duty is headed to trial.
The Sacramento Bee reports (http://bit.ly/19eHsiy) Gary Dale Baker will be arraigned Oct. 17.
Superior Court Judge Patrick Marlette ordered the trial following a preliminary hearing that took eight court days.
The 50-year-old Baker was arrested in December on suspicion of rape, forcible oral copulation and other charges in the assault of the stroke-impaired woman in her 70s.
Baker also faces burglary-related charges that could bring him a life term if he is convicted.
Detectives recognized the suspect as Baker after reviewing footage from a surveillance camera the alleged victim's family installed after she told them of the assault.

Edwardsville cop sentenced for recording women at tanning salon

EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. -- A former southwestern Illinois police officer has been sentenced to two years of probation after admitting he illegally took cellphone videos of women at a tanning salon.

The (Alton) Telegraph reports that 47-year-old Michael Collins was sentenced Monday after pleading guilty to one count of unauthorized video recording. Prosecutors dropped two other counts.

Madison County prosecutors claimed Collins secretly recorded different women over a four-day period at a Glen Carbon tanning salon last April.

Collins had served 15 years with Edwardsville police and was the senior patrol officer before resigning just days after being charged.

Authorities say the case surfaced when a salon customer accused Collins of taking pictures over the wall from an adjacent room as she prepared to tan.

4 Cops Forcibly Strip Search Woman After DUI Arrest

A DUI arrest turned into a disturbing strip search when four officers, three of whom were male, pinned an Illinois woman face down on the floor of a cell and stripped her of every piece of her clothing. According to a police report, her blood alcohol level was three times the legal limit, she was mouthy, kicking at them and resisting a pat-down. The woman is now suing.

Jonna Spilbor told Gretchen Carlson that the search was illegal and the woman’s rights were completely violated. “There is never a reason when someone gets stopped for DWI, there would never be a reason to strip search that person, male or female, unless you think they have an AK-47 or a kilo of coke in their colon!”

cop accused of rape says sex was consensual

 Sacramento police officer Gary Dale Baker told investigators he had sex with the elderly, stroke-impaired woman he is accused of raping, but insisted it was consensual, a detective testified Wednesday.

Baker admitted to the contact a day after he denied having sex with her at all, Detective Eugene Shim said at the former officer’s preliminary hearing in Sacramento Superior Court. Shim said Baker initially denied having sex with the woman when Sacramento police first informed him he was the target of a sexual-assault investigation last December.

Shim testified that Baker, now 50, said he unsuccessfully attempted to have sexual intercourse with the woman, now 78, about two months before police confronted him.

Baker also told detectives he later performed oral sex on the woman in the bedroom of her south area senior-living apartment complex, Shim testified under questioning from Deputy District Attorney Amy Holliday.

On cross-examination, Shim told defense attorney Linda Parisi that Baker thought the alleged victim – who is identified in the case only as “Jane Doe” – was 60 to 65 years old. According to Shim, Baker thought she had an accent and that she stuttered. Under further questioning from Parisi, the detective said Baker thought the woman had “something else” wrong with her speech that made it “a little different.”

The woman suffered a stroke in 2009 that left her with a lingering condition called speech aphasia, which severely inhibits her ability to communicate through written or spoken words. She has been declared incompetent to testify, a potentially major hurdle for the prosecution if the case goes to trial.

Police and prosecutors have charged that Baker raped the woman twice, both times inside her apartment, on Nov. 24, 2010, and again on Sept. 20, 2012. Authorities said Baker was questioned, arrested and fired last December after the woman’s son mounted a game-hunting camera over her apartment door and turned over to police a video purportedly showing an assailant entering her apartment to attack her.

Asked if Baker told detectives he never forced the woman to do anything, Shim answered, “Yes.” Baker also told them he had a conversation with the woman about her family, that she showed him pictures of them and that she even gave him her phone number, Shim testified.

“He said that every interaction he had with Ms. Doe was in fact consensual?” Parisi asked.

“Yes,” Shim replied.

Baker’s admission that he had sex with the woman took place a day after detectives first told him they were looking into allegations of a sexual assault and that he matched the description of the suspect. The initial confrontation came at 5:20 a.m. Dec. 19, some 40 minutes before Baker was scheduled to begin his patrol shift in the neighborhood where the elderly woman lived.

The officer said last December he met the woman “months ago” while he was off duty, Shim said. “He stated they had met and talked for a little while and at some point they went over to her residence,” the detective testified. Baker spontaneously at first said, “I never had any sexual relations with her at all,” according to Shim’s account of their interview.

“Zero, no contact,” Baker said in the interview, Shim testified. “Haven’t held her hand. Haven’t done anything with her.”

During the preliminary hearing, the prosecution has presented testimony from police and family members who said it was clear to them the elderly woman claimed to have been raped. The defense has challenged the admissibility of the police and family testimony on hearsay grounds. Judge Patrick Marlette has not ruled on how much of it will be considered in the preliminary hearing, which has now taken seven days and is scheduled to resume Monday.

Besides the testimony, Holliday has presented medical evidence that the woman suffered physical trauma consistent with a sexual attack. Authorities also say they have DNA evidence, which it appears the defense will attempt to explain by Baker’s contention that the sex was consensual.

“Certainly that’s a big part of it, as well as other challenges to what has occurred,” Parisi said in an interview outside the courtroom.

One of those challenges was an effort by Parisi on Thursday to have Baker’s statements to the detectives ruled inadmissible. She argued the detectives did not properly inform Baker of his rights, saying only that whatever he said to them “may” be used against him in court, not “can and will.” Parisi also said Baker never formally waived his right to not answer questions, and that the detectives never clearly communicated to him that they were conducting a criminal rather than administrative investigation.

Marlette, who has had several contentious exchanges with Parisi, ruled against her on all counts. Throughout the hearing, Parisi has riled the judge by continuing to argue on objections after he has ruled on them.

Colville police officer charged on alleged sexual misconduct

A Colville police officer was charged Friday with seven criminal counts, including four felonies, stemming from a string of alleged sexual encounters with women while in uniform dating back to 2011.

Rex Newport, 45, has been formally accused of first-degree burglary and unlawful imprisonment, custodial sexual misconduct and making false or misleading statements to a public servant, according to documents filed in Stevens County Superior Court on Friday afternoon. Knowledge of Newport’s behavior came to the attention of authorities after a woman claimed she’d been sexually assaulted by the 15-year veteran of the Colville police force at her apartment in March.

According to court documents, the woman alleges Newport entered her apartment after she returned home from a night of drinking at a Colville bar. Newport drank some of her alcohol, then left on a radio call for another incident, according to allegations made in the court documents. The woman said Newport later returned, handcuffed her and raped her, court documents say.

Newport told investigators, who were also looking into claims the officer took off his gun belt and put it around the woman, that the claims were a “hundred percent nonsense,” according to court records.

DNA taken from the scene places Newport in the woman’s apartment and indicates sexual contact, according to court records.

Evidence collected during the investigation indicate a pattern in which Newport would contact intoxicated women coming home from bars. Multiple women claimed Newport pulled them over for what appeared to be stops for driving under the influence. He then had sex with them, they say, and the DUI claims were never investigated.

The Stevens County Sheriff’s Office and FBI collaborated in the investigation. One woman claimed that after the sexual contact, Newport continued to send her unwanted and sexually explicit text messages.

Newport has denied the allegations made against him. He remains on administrative leave from the Colville Police Department.

A pilot who made an emergency landing at a municipal airport runway has also sued Newport and the city for alleged use of excessive force, according to previous reporting.

The burglary and unlawful imprisonment charges carry firearm enhancements because Newport was armed with a service handgun at the time of the alleged crime. The charges hold potential maximum sentences ranging from a year to life in prison.

Rex Newport is accused of first-degree burglary and unlawful imprisonment, custodial sexual misconduct and making false or misleading statements to a public servant.

A Colville police officer was charged Friday with seven criminal counts, including four felonies, stemming from a string of alleged on-duty sexual encounters with women dating to 2011.

Rex Newport, 45, has been formally accused of first-degree burglary and unlawful imprisonment, custodial sexual misconduct and making false or misleading statements to a public servant, according to documents filed in Stevens County Superior Court on Friday afternoon. Newport’s alleged behavior came to the attention of authorities after a woman claimed she’d been sexually assaulted by the 15-year veteran of the Colville police force at her apartment in March.

According to court documents, the woman alleges Newport entered her apartment after she returned home from a night of drinking at a Colville bar. Newport drank some of her alcohol, then left on a radio call for another incident, she told police. The woman said Newport later returned, handcuffed her and raped her, court documents say.

Newport told investigators, who were also looking into claims the officer took off his gun belt and put it around the woman, that the allegations were a “hundred percent nonsense,” according to court records.

DNA taken from the scene places Newport in the woman’s apartment and indicates sexual contact, according to court records.

Evidence collected during the investigation indicates a pattern in which Newport would contact intoxicated women coming home from bars. Multiple women claimed Newport pulled them over, supposedly on suspicion of driving under the influence, then had sex with them. Any DUI claims were never investigated, they say.

The Stevens County Sheriff’s Office and the FBI collaborated on the investigation. One woman claimed that after the sexual contact, Newport continued to send her unwanted and sexually explicit text messages.

Newport has denied the allegations. He remains on administrative leave from the Colville Police Department.

A pilot who made an emergency landing at a municipal airport runway has also sued Newport and the city for alleged use of excessive force, according to previous reports.

The burglary and unlawful imprisonment charges carry firearm enhancements because Newport was armed with a service handgun at the time of the alleged crime. The charges hold potential maximum sentences ranging from a year to life in prison.

Officer Suspended In Bra Search

The Lakeland (Fla.) Police officer who told a woman to shake out her bra for drugs received a one-day suspension, the agency announced Wednesday.

Officer Dustin Fetz must also complete re-training in arrest, search and seizure laws and procedures, and complete an in-depth research project, reports the Tampa Tribune.

Officer Fetz was suspended for misuse of recording equipment for failing to activate his agency-issued microphone. Agency documents had characterized the search as consenual, reports the Lakeland Ledger.

Officer Fetz pulled over Zoe Brugger and her boyfriend Larry Fields on May 21 because the couple's vehicle had only one functioning headlight. The officer searched the vehicle and asked Brugger to exit the vehicle. He twice asked Brugger to pull her bra forward to release any possible weapons or contraband.

Lakeland Police officer Julio Pagan charged with sexual battery, stalking

Lakeland, Florida -- Another sex scandal at the Lakeland Police Department, and this time, the officer involved faces criminal charges.

Officer Julio Pagan, 31, was arrested today on two counts of sexual battery and one count of stalking.

"There are simply no words to describe my shock, my outrage, my disgust about this," said Chief Lisa Womack.

Chief Womack says the investigation dates back to a time right in the middle of the department's highly publicized sex scandal.

Investigators say Officer Pagan responded to a July 4th call near a trailer park and that's where he first met the alleged victim.

Six weeks later, during another call, the woman says Pagan coerced her to have sex with him in her bathroom while he was still armed, in uniform, and on duty.

Asked if this will only promote talk of persistent culture problems now under her command as well at Lakeland P.D., Chief Womack was clearly frustrated.

"This is not a departmental issue," she said pausing for moment, "You want to know how I feel about it? Fed up," she said.

The alleged victim says three weeks later, Pagan, again on-duty, was back, asking her for a "quickie" accoridng to the polcie report.

 Surveillance video shows Pagan's cruiser pulling up to a nearby Circle K store, where images, say detectives, show the woman buys alcohol before both return to her house.

Investigators say Pagan then came back a second time on that same date, August 29th, but that the woman made an excuse to fend off his advances and called police to complain about Pagan's visits.

However the dispatcher, idnetified as Christinia Jordan, now on administrative leave, never sent an officer.

"I have no valid explanation as to at this point why that that did not occur," said Chief Womack. An investigation into the matter was "about 90%" complete, she said.

The victim, who never had a police officer respond, got another uninvited visit from Pagan about three weeks later.

Relatives called to complain yet again, and this time Lakeland sent an investigator.

Austin Garcia, a neighbor, says a short time later, the trailer park area was visited by multiiple officers.

"I did see a couple of squad cars go over there and stuff, like about 5 or 6 of them," he said, "They stayed there about an hour or two and left."

Chief Womack says she knows the public is already commenting about how this may yet again be an example of the "culture" within Lakeland P.D., but she took issue with that assertion. 

This was not a departmental culture issue, she said - it's a crime.

Pagan, she said, will likely be formally fired over the next couple of days.

He faces life in prison if convicted.

Police reports released on former TPD officer charged with sex assault

New details are emerging about a fired-former Tucson Police Officer who is now facing felony charges connected to sexually assaulting an inmate.

There was no answer at former Officer Ben Gaballa's northwest side home. He is now out on bond after he was arrested Wednesday on four felony charges including sexual assault and abuse. The victim is a woman he took to jail for some kind of a family fight.

It's what happened after she was arrested that has Gaballa on the other side of the law. Police reports Tucson News Now obtained show the victim stated Gaballa arrested her, they left her home and drove around for approximately 30 minutes. Gaballa found a place to park behind a Walgreens at Campbell and Grant and then had her get out of the backseat and uncuffed her, according to reports.

Part of the report detailing the alleged sex acts is redacted but at some point, it looks like the victim tried to run away. It goes on to say "she stated the officer ran after her, there was a slight struggle." The victim was then booked into jail where she filed the complaint with correctional officers.

Tucson Police swabbed the patrol car, clothing and other items the pair had, checking for any evidence.

"Things weren't matching up and they were verifying the complaints version of events than the officer," said Chief Roberto Villasenor.

When we caught up with Gaballa last month, he denied these accusations. Tucson Police Fired him for lying on a report, misrepresenting facts to his supervisor and mishandling evidence. The report shows detectives located a small amount of marijuana in a blue glove in Gaballa's duty bag along with a syringe. It was likely evidence from another case that never got booked.