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Sheriff, 12 officers indicted
ROANOKE, Va. - A sheriff and 12 current and former officers in a hard-luck rural county that once billed itself the “Sweatshirt Capital of the World” were charged Thursday in a scheme to sell drugs seized from criminals back to the community.
A former postal worker, a former probation officer and five other people also were indicted by federal prosecutors. The charges included racketeering conspiracy, weapons charges, narcotics distribution, obstruction of justice and perjury.
H. Franklin Cassell — the sheriff of Henry County, a former textile hub situated about 50 miles ... Read more
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The Oregonian - OregonLive.com
16 January 2008
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Sex case will cost officer his
Portland police Officer Jason K. Faulk, accused of having sex with a woman while he was on duty last summer, is expected to enter a guilty plea to one count of official misconduct in Multnomah County Circuit Court this morning and resign from the Police Bureau.
Faulk, a Central Precinct night shift officer, was placed on paid leave Sept. 11 after a woman, described by her lawyer as autistic and emotionally challenged, filed a complaint with police.
Faulk, 34, will be required to undergo an evaluation or debriefing with the bureau's police psychologist, a step the city is taking to learn whether there are any characteristics or behavioral issues that the bureau might catch earlier or to help screen out problem applicants before hiring. The city wants to make these types of debriefings routine in cases of police misconduct.
"I would hope Portland police would do everything they could do to make sure this doesn't happen to anyone else again," said Beth Creighton, a Portland lawyer representing the woman who filed the complaint against Faulk.
Faulk's lawyer, Lawrence Matasar, confirmed the plea agreement, but said he had no comment.
The woman said she met Faulk when he responded to her home after she called police to report suspected mistreatment involving her 7-year-old son. She said Faulk returned that night to her home to give her his written report and came back several times while he was on duty.
The woman said they had sex in her home while he was on duty, on or around July 15 and Aug. 16, and then he accompanied her after their second sexual encounter to a 24-hour Walgreens pharmacy to help her buy a morning-after pill.
A Multnomah County grand jury indicted Faulk in November on two counts of official misconduct, a misdemeanor for each of the sexual encounters. The grand jury decided against any sexual abuse charges, concluding that the woman was capable of consenting to the sex.
As part of the plea deal, one count will be dismissed, prosecutor Christine Mascal said.
Faulk also will lose his police certification, be placed on probation for two years and be required to pay a fine, undergo mental health treatment and counseling, and not carry a firearm during his probation.
When Faulk last appeared in court to enter a not-guilty plea in November to the misconduct charges, he was seen on camera flipping off the media. The Police Bureau opened an internal investigation into his actions, but his guilty plea and resignation will make that inquiry moot.
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