Post by WaTcHeR on Jun 23, 2006 14:50:18 GMT -5
06.23.2006 - CROWLEY — For the next 10 years, former Crowley police officer Jack Davis will answer to a community supervision officer in Tarrant County.
He was also led from the courtroom in handcuffs after being sentenced to serve 180 days in county jail and to wear an electronic leg monitor after his release.
Davis was released from the Tarrant County jail to the probation department on June 5, jail technician Alma Molina said.
He avoided prison time, but not because Tarrant County Assistant District Attorney Rebecca McIntire didn’t ask for it. McIntire is part of the Crimes Against Children Division.
Officer Davis, 48, was convicted of indecent exposure. He had also been charged with sexual performance by a child. McIntire said both charges stemmed from the same March 24, 2004, incident. The latter charge was eventually dropped.
Officer Davis was sentenced to 10 years probation on Feb. 24 by District Judge Mike Thomas in County District Courtroom No. 4. He will have to register as a sex offender for the rest of his life since his crime involved a 5-year-old girl.
“The victim was visiting at a local family member’s home when she was sexually assaulted by a white male who resides at this same location,” police said in a press release.
Investigator Sandra Henson of the Crowley Police Department named Davis as that man. The year before, Davis was named Police Officer of the Year in Crowley.
Police Chief Kirk Nemitz said the little girl “made an outcry to her grandparent that something had happened” involving Davis.
Months before the sentencing hearing, Davis pleaded guilty to a charge of indecent-exposure. The charge of sexual performance by a child was not prosecuted, McIntire said.
Following Davis’ guilty plea, the case went into a pre-sentence investigation, which means officers with the county probation agency obtained an “entire life picture” of Jack Davis.
“Davis exercised his option of having a pre-sentence investigation, which looks at his mental and social background, drug and alcohol issues, criminal, family and work history to decide what his sentence should be,” McIntire said. “We put on witnesses and asked for penitentiary time, but the judge decided the punishment.”
McIntire said the judge had the discretion to assign Davis prison or jail time, or probation only as a first offender, and he could also require mandatory treatment. She said there was no plea bargain in this case.
Nemitz said the department “did what it had to do” to handle the case against Davis.
“The case was an embarrassment to the police community, including the Crowley Police Department,” Nemitz said. “We don’t like what happened.”
Nemitz said he didn’t agree with Davis only receiving 10 years probation.
“I am more apt to agree that he receive prison time,” he said.
Davis started with the department in September 1992 as an unpaid reserve officer. In July 1995, he became a part-time warrants officer and went to full-time patrol officer in October 2000. Davis resigned from the police department on July 30, 2003, after telling his supervisors he refused to cooperate with an unrelated investigation by taking a lie-detector test.
An arrest warrant was issued May 17, 2004, and Davis turned himself in to the Tarrant County Sheriff’s Office the next day accompanied by his attorney. Nemitz said Davis had made it known he did not want to be arrested in Crowley by his former co-workers.
Davis now lives with his wife near Springtown, having left the Crowley area about two years ago.
www.burlesoncrowley.com/publish/article_1022.shtml
He was also led from the courtroom in handcuffs after being sentenced to serve 180 days in county jail and to wear an electronic leg monitor after his release.
Davis was released from the Tarrant County jail to the probation department on June 5, jail technician Alma Molina said.
He avoided prison time, but not because Tarrant County Assistant District Attorney Rebecca McIntire didn’t ask for it. McIntire is part of the Crimes Against Children Division.
Officer Davis, 48, was convicted of indecent exposure. He had also been charged with sexual performance by a child. McIntire said both charges stemmed from the same March 24, 2004, incident. The latter charge was eventually dropped.
Officer Davis was sentenced to 10 years probation on Feb. 24 by District Judge Mike Thomas in County District Courtroom No. 4. He will have to register as a sex offender for the rest of his life since his crime involved a 5-year-old girl.
“The victim was visiting at a local family member’s home when she was sexually assaulted by a white male who resides at this same location,” police said in a press release.
Investigator Sandra Henson of the Crowley Police Department named Davis as that man. The year before, Davis was named Police Officer of the Year in Crowley.
Police Chief Kirk Nemitz said the little girl “made an outcry to her grandparent that something had happened” involving Davis.
Months before the sentencing hearing, Davis pleaded guilty to a charge of indecent-exposure. The charge of sexual performance by a child was not prosecuted, McIntire said.
Following Davis’ guilty plea, the case went into a pre-sentence investigation, which means officers with the county probation agency obtained an “entire life picture” of Jack Davis.
“Davis exercised his option of having a pre-sentence investigation, which looks at his mental and social background, drug and alcohol issues, criminal, family and work history to decide what his sentence should be,” McIntire said. “We put on witnesses and asked for penitentiary time, but the judge decided the punishment.”
McIntire said the judge had the discretion to assign Davis prison or jail time, or probation only as a first offender, and he could also require mandatory treatment. She said there was no plea bargain in this case.
Nemitz said the department “did what it had to do” to handle the case against Davis.
“The case was an embarrassment to the police community, including the Crowley Police Department,” Nemitz said. “We don’t like what happened.”
Nemitz said he didn’t agree with Davis only receiving 10 years probation.
“I am more apt to agree that he receive prison time,” he said.
Davis started with the department in September 1992 as an unpaid reserve officer. In July 1995, he became a part-time warrants officer and went to full-time patrol officer in October 2000. Davis resigned from the police department on July 30, 2003, after telling his supervisors he refused to cooperate with an unrelated investigation by taking a lie-detector test.
An arrest warrant was issued May 17, 2004, and Davis turned himself in to the Tarrant County Sheriff’s Office the next day accompanied by his attorney. Nemitz said Davis had made it known he did not want to be arrested in Crowley by his former co-workers.
Davis now lives with his wife near Springtown, having left the Crowley area about two years ago.
www.burlesoncrowley.com/publish/article_1022.shtml
