Post by Shuftin on Oct 20, 2006 11:25:39 GMT -5
May 5, 2006
(AP) BALTIMORE, Md. A city police officer, already accused of raping a woman inside a police station, has been indicted on a rape charge involving another woman, the state's attorney's office announced Friday.
Officer Jemini Jones, 28, was charged with second-degree rape, second-degree sex offense and misconduct in office. He turned himself in and was ordered held Friday afternoon in lieu of $75,000 bail.
According to prosecutors, Jones executed a search warrant Oct. 24 at a woman's home and told her that she would have to engage in sexual activities to avoid arrest.
In the earlier case, Jones was indicted Jan. 6 for allegedly having sex with a 22-year-old woman in exchange for her release from the Southwestern District precinct house. He was charged with rape, violation of official duties and conspiracy to commit rape. Charged with the same offenses were officers Steven Hatley and Brian Shaffer, who were accused of not doing anything to stop the rape.
Jones' attorney, Warren Brown, described the new charges as "ridiculous" and questioned the timing of the indictment, which comes less than a month before the scheduled start of Jones' trial in the first case.
He said his client was being scapegoated by State's Attorney Patricia Jessamy, who has clashed frequently with the police department and Mayor Martin O'Malley.
"The state's attorney's office has never, ever shied away from any opportunity to make the police department look bad," Brown said.
Brown said his client is innocent in both cases. He said Jones' accuser changed her story about what happened when Jones searched her home after Jones was charged with the police station rape.
"They've got one witness who's been convicted of making false statements to the police in the past and has given two different statements of what happened here," he said.
Jones, Hatley and Shaffer were members of a special drug enforcement unit known as a "flex squad." All three have been suspended without pay, and the entire Southwestern District flex squad has been replaced, said Detective Donny Moses, a police spokesman.
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(AP) BALTIMORE, Md. A city police officer, already accused of raping a woman inside a police station, has been indicted on a rape charge involving another woman, the state's attorney's office announced Friday.
Officer Jemini Jones, 28, was charged with second-degree rape, second-degree sex offense and misconduct in office. He turned himself in and was ordered held Friday afternoon in lieu of $75,000 bail.
According to prosecutors, Jones executed a search warrant Oct. 24 at a woman's home and told her that she would have to engage in sexual activities to avoid arrest.
In the earlier case, Jones was indicted Jan. 6 for allegedly having sex with a 22-year-old woman in exchange for her release from the Southwestern District precinct house. He was charged with rape, violation of official duties and conspiracy to commit rape. Charged with the same offenses were officers Steven Hatley and Brian Shaffer, who were accused of not doing anything to stop the rape.
Jones' attorney, Warren Brown, described the new charges as "ridiculous" and questioned the timing of the indictment, which comes less than a month before the scheduled start of Jones' trial in the first case.
He said his client was being scapegoated by State's Attorney Patricia Jessamy, who has clashed frequently with the police department and Mayor Martin O'Malley.
"The state's attorney's office has never, ever shied away from any opportunity to make the police department look bad," Brown said.
Brown said his client is innocent in both cases. He said Jones' accuser changed her story about what happened when Jones searched her home after Jones was charged with the police station rape.
"They've got one witness who's been convicted of making false statements to the police in the past and has given two different statements of what happened here," he said.
Jones, Hatley and Shaffer were members of a special drug enforcement unit known as a "flex squad." All three have been suspended without pay, and the entire Southwestern District flex squad has been replaced, said Detective Donny Moses, a police spokesman.
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