10/31/2005 - A San Antonio Texas police officer has been accused of sexually assaulting a woman, the second officer charged this year with rape. 

 He should have been protecting her, but now a San Antonio cop is in jail, accused of raping a woman while on the job. The San Antonio Police arrested one of their own Sunday morning, saying he broke the oath to serve and protect. Patrol Officer Ruben Saenz, 28, is accused of raping a woman after pulling her over for erratic driving early Saturday morning in her neighborhood near Lackland Air Force base.

 "During that traffic stop the officer approached her," Lt. Gabe Trevino said she had been drinking. She felt she was intoxicated. She said the officer told her she was intoxicated."

 According to police reports, the victim says instead of giving her a DWI Saenz followed her to her home. She says she thought she wasn't in trouble until the officer followed her into her home - uninvited. It was at that point the victim says Officer Saenz sexually assaulted her against her will.

 In her statement to the police the victim said, "He was telling me how bad it could be if I got a DWI. I think he said it would be in my best interest to let him do what he wanted. I let him do whatever he wanted to. I did not say no to him, but I did not want to have intercourse with him."

She called her husband who reported the assault, Trevino said.

Saenz admits to having sex with the woman, but he claims it was consensual. Police investigators say the woman was too drunk to give consent.

"It's very disturbing obviously to hear of a situation like this," says Trevino. "But when it does occur we're gonna take immediate and aggressive action against whoever the offender might be."

 Officer Saenz, who has been with the SAPD for more than three years, is charged with sexual assault and is being held on a $50,000 bond. Police plan to release more details about the case Monday morning.

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 05/18/2005 - Members of the New Orleans Police Department's Public Integrity Bureau on Friday arrested a seven-year member of force for rape and assault, according to spokesman Capt. Marlon Defillo.
The officer, Corey Johnson, 34, was assigned to the Major Narcotics Section. The incident occurred Friday just after 4:30 a.m. in the area of North Robertson and Esplanade Avenue. According to investigators, Johnson, who was off duty at the time, had apparently gone to a home, knocked on the front door and was allowed in after he identified himself as New Orleans police officer.

He asked for a woman, who was not at home at the time, and threatened a 41-year-old man, police said. Johnson walked to the rear of the home and threatened a 31-year-old man, ordering him to the front of the house.

 A 21-year-old woman was in the room. Johnson demanded sex from her, but she refused. A 24-year-old woman submitted to his demands and was raped. During the attack, another woman managed to call police, and a uniformed officer arrived at the scene. Johnson was in the rear of the home and was immediately taken into custody.

J ohnson was booked on one count of aggravated rape and two counts of aggravated assault. He was immediately suspended, without pay, pending a review by the superintendent of police, Defillo said.
"When a member of this department compromises the trust and privileges granted by the public, there will be swift and definite action taken," said Superintendent Eddie Compass. "No person, including police officers, is above the law."

 A former Austin Texas police officer will find out next month if he'll go to jail for three years.

 Officer Jason Lockaby pled guilty to a felony and two misdemeanors.  He was charged with inappropriately touching two women and trying to entice another woman in his custody while he was on duty last year.

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 NEW ORLEANS - A two-year veteran of the New Orleans Police Department was arrested Wednesday in connection with the sexual assault of a woman he stopped on the street, according to investigators.

 Investigators said 5th District Officer Keith Griffin, 37, was working the night shift July 11 at about 3 a.m. when he stopped a 37-year-old woman riding a bicycle in the area of St. Claude Avenue and Flood Street. The woman was detained, driven to Flood and Deslonde streets and sexually assaulted, investigators said.

 Immediately following the assault, the victim reported the incident to the Police Department. Members of the Public Integrity Bureau began an investigation and found her information to be credible, police said.

 Officer Griffin was arrested Wednesday morning and booked with aggravated rape, simple kidnapping and malfeasance in office. 

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 Colorado - A woman feared losing custody of her 4-year-old daughter if she reported that an Arvada undercover police officer raped her, a Jefferson County prosecutor argued Monday.

 "She didn't know what to do. . . . She told her mom no one would believe her," prosecutor Matt Durkin told the jury. "This was not consensual. This was control, fear and manipulation."

 Officer Derek Smotherman, 34, is on trial, charged with sexually assaulting a woman he recruited to make undercover drug purchases. He is a former officer with the West Metro Drug Task Force in Arvada. He resigned in October after 10 years as an Arvada police officer. 

 Defense attorney Norman Mueller said Smotherman took advantage of his position by mixing business and pleasure but did not rape the woman. He suggested she brought up the sexual-assault allegation because she feared police might arrest her on drug charges and because she could not provide a drug buy for the undercover operation. 

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 07/01/2005 - Former Concrete police officer Jabin Roff was charged with statutory rape Wednesday relating to a sexual relationship with a 15-year-old girl.

 Roff allegedly had an extra-marital affair with the then-15-year-old girl in December 2002, before joining the Concrete Police Department. At the time, Roff's older brother, Chris Roff, was an officer with the department.

 Skagit County Prosecutor Tom Seguine filed rape charges against Jabin Roff Wednesday in Skagit County Superior Court.

 If convicted, Roff could be sentenced to 12 to 14 months in prison, Seguine said.

 Although Roff, now 26, was only charged with statutory rape, a statement filed with the court given by a Skagit County Sheriff's Office detective alleges that Roff also assaulted the girl and another child with a Taser stun gun while he served as a police officer in July 2004. According to the statement, Roff also gave a then-15-year-old brother of the victim hard alcohol.

 Roff was a Concrete police officer at the time of the later assaults and his older brother, Chris, was by then serving as police chief.

 Chris Roff, who also has been charged with related but less-serious offenses, allegedly took steps to interfere with the investigation into allegations against his brother.

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  New York - A former New Rochelle police officer who was fired following a misdemeanor conviction involving an underage girl has been arrested by Yonkers detectives and accused of stalking a city woman.

 Donald Feola of Mount Vernon, 46, who police said was working as a landscaper, was arrested at 6:30 p.m. Sunday by detectives Justin Barbado and Robert Fitzpatrick. He is charged with second-degree burglary, a felony, and fourth-degree stalking, a misdemeanor.

 He is accused of walking into a woman's home in northwest Yonkers just after 4 p.m. Friday and making sexually threatening remarks to her, Detective Lt. Maureen Zadorozny said. The woman became afraid and asked him to leave, telling police he left in a landscaper's truck. Police do not believe the woman and Feola know each other.

 Feola went on trial in 2003 on statutory rape and sodomy charges involving a 16-year-old girl he'd befriended. He was cleared of those felony charges, but convicted of endangering the welfare of a child, a misdemeanor. The 17-year police veteran was fired after the trial. He was sentenced to three years' probation.

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