Big scandal being uncovered in thelakelander's Lakeland. No wonder crime is out of control. The officers can't keep their hands off each other while on duty....
Investigation Uncovers Allegations of Sexual Misconduct at the Lakeland Police DepartmentQuoteLAKELAND | A nearly three-month investigation into sexual misconduct at the Lakeland Police Department found that at least 10 officers inappropriately had sex or were engaged in sexually suggestive behavior with a female civilian employee during the past seven years.
full article: http://www.theledger.com/article/20130625/NEWS/130629648&tc=ix
State Attorney's Office Report Details Wider Range of Involvement in LPD Sex Scandal(http://www.theledger.com/apps/pbcsi.dll/bilde?Site=LL&Date=20130627&Category=NEWS&ArtNo=130629541&Ref=AR&MaxW=445&border=0)
QuoteLAKELAND | In addition to previously published accounts of police officers involved in an ongoing sex scandal investigation, there were others in a State Attorney's Office report that reveal more allegations of sex acts, sexual harassment and inappropriate photographs.
The allegations include a Lakeland Police Department officer's request to drink a woman's urine, photos of an officer wearing women's lingerie, requests for threesomes among a former assistant chief of police and two employees, fondling and various other sex acts.
The State Attorney's Office's report released earlier this week also details allegations of dozens of consensual and multiple forced sexual encounters between more than 20 LPD officers and city employees, and between officers and crime analyst Sue Eberle, 37, who was placed on paid leave as the investigation began. Her annual salary is $42,000.
full article: http://www.theledger.com/article/20130627/NEWS/130629541?tc=cr
I love The Ledger's reporting on this. Some nuggets from a few of the accused....
QuoteSome of the LPD employee's most serious allegations involve Sgt. David Woolverton, a traffic homicide unit member. The employee said Woolverton on two occasions entered her office and forced her to have sex on top of her desk â€" an accusation he repeatedly said was false, according to the investigators's report.
Based on the State Attorney's Office report, the alleged incidents occurred in 2008 or 2009.
Woolverton said they did have consensual sex in his vehicle in 2006 and 2007 at Lake Parker Park. He also said they exchanged explicit text messages that included videos and pictures.
QuoteAnother time in 2006, Vidal asked her to go to the third floor of the department with him, the report said. He opened a closet and began fondling her and removing his clothes. The employee said she had sex with him.
Vidal provided a different account to investigators.
He said the woman was flirtatious and that he tried to limit his contact with her, the report said. He initially denied having sex with the woman but later revealed a day in 2006 when he was getting items out of a closet and she walked in and began rubbing against him.
"Vidal said he had a low blood sugar episode and went down on his knees," the investigators wrote in their report. "It was sort of foggy, and he blacked out."
QuoteLakeland Fire Department Inspector David Bivens told investigators he had sex with the employee on two occasions in his office. One of those times was during the city's annual Fourth of July event, Red, White and Kaboom, when he was in charge of overseeing safety, the reports said.
Bivens also said they has sex in her vehicle after the funeral service reception for Officer Arnulfo Crispin, who was killed on duty in a 2011 shooting.
QuoteThe woman told investigators she and Sherman had sexual intercourse in 2011 and 2012 while he was on duty, with several encounters at Without Walls Church. The second time at the church, they were caught by another LPD officer.
She said she also met Sherman for sex near Kathleen Road and Interstate 4 and at a cemetery. She said there was another on-duty sexual liaison at a police mini-station.
Sherman told investigators he initially lied to the LPD about his involvement to protect his job, family and reputation, the reports said. Sherman said he was embarrassed and regretful of what he did.
QuoteOfficer Dan Jonas, the former gang liaison for the department, had exchanged nude photos and sexual text messages with Eberle between 2011 and 2013, she told investigators.
"She considered Jonas a ‘freak' and wanted her to do strange things," investigators wrote in the report. "On one occasion at work Jonas asked her to urinate in a cup so he could drink it."
QuoteGeorge Brooks was the city of Lakeland's director of employee relations until his 2009 retirement, and the report said he often flirted with Eberle and asked her for sex. But they never had sex.
In one instance in 2004, Eberle reported she was in Brooks' office with the door closed, the report said, and he pulled Eberle's clothing down and exposed her pubic area.
"Brooks used scissors to cut some pubic hair from Eberle. He put the pubic hair in an envelope and told Eberle he wanted something to remember her by."