Gotta watch out for those FBI agents hiding in the bushes...
Posted on 01/22/2008 11:43:30 AM PST by redrunner
CEDAR RAPIDS - A Cedar Rapids police officer will never wear a law enforcement uniform anywhere again, according to an agreement between the officer and the government.
The agreement is part of a guilty plea Kevin Sims, 36, made to a federal misdemeanor charge Friday in U.S. District Court.
He admitted that while he was on duty as a police officer, he intentionally denied a citizen of rights provided by the Constitution when they had consensual sexual relations following a traffic stop.
Sims admitted he was a patrol officer in spring 2004 when he stopped at a bar about 1 a.m. to conduct a bar check. While there he greeted a woman he knew from previous bar checks.
A half-hour after Sims conducted the bar check, he used the emergency lights on his police car to stop the woman as she drove down Center Point Road. He did not alert the dispatcher he had stopped a vehicle as required by police department policy.
When Sims approached the woman, she told him she had a suspended license. Normal procedures required Sims to take her identification and call the dispatcher to verify her driving status. Instead, Sims took her to Daniels Park.
At the park Sims and the woman had intimate relations while Sims was still on duty, in his police uniform with his firearm still in his holster.
The woman voluntarily engaged in the acts believing that by doing so she would escape any criminal charges. Sims did not arrest the woman and did not issue a citation for driving on a suspended license. He did not report the traffic stop to the dispatcher or his supervisor.
In 2007, when Sims was interviewed about the incident by two FBI agents, he denied involvement. Later, when the agents presented more information, he admitted he had sexual relations with the woman.
Sims will be sentenced by Judge Jon Scoles following completion of a presentence report by the probation office.
He faces up to a year in prison and a $1,000 fine. Scoles released Sims without bail to await sentencing.
Sucks for him. Good.
They need to just shoot him, what a piece of trash.
Exactly the same thing Billy Boy did . . . so if we are to apply a similar standard of justice, he should be ineligible to ever hold elective office again, even as first gentleman.
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If he was picking out young-looking patrons and asking to see their licenses, it seems likely that he premeditatedly ran her license to see if she had any outstanding warrants or other issues so he would have leverage to intimidate her into sex.
If so, I don't see how what he did differs from rape.
It amazes me just how many of us men follow our “pointer” right down the drain.
Are you sure that not (a male’s) Democrat Brain?
He must have never been taught the old saying:
“The badge’ll get you p****, and the p**** will get your badge”
Hey honey, look how great our city’s Police are.
You mean they aren't all on Facebook pretending to be 10 years old?
But something else wasn’t in its holster.
But how is this a FEDERAL issue? Is there some racial part of this? (Even so, why is it a federal issue????)
I wonder why the FBI was investigating this. I guess it is a Federal crime, but three years after the fact, I assume the woman turned him in (or he blabbed to a buddy - which would not surprise me).
He kept his gun in its holster...
So where are all the cop groupies defending this guy?
A walk-through with the consent of the bar owner, usually just before closing time. Identify a drunk driver before he gets into his car and try to get him to take cab.
Also a bit of “show the flag” and cut down on bar fights.
Cool, and that’s the park down the street.
And the sheriff won’t give us peons concealed carry permits?
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