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Officer
Arrested After Conducting His Own Prostitution Sting
Posted: Monday, 20 November
2006 12:33PM
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MANCHESTER,
N.J. (AP) -- A police officer who
claimed he was conducting his own prostitution sting and
strip search ended up being the one arrested.
Authorities arrested James Michael Jackson, a police
officer with the state Department of Human Services, and
charged him with sexual assault and sexual misconduct for
the so-called sting.
According to authorities, Jackson, 34, of Toms River,
arranged through a service for a woman to meet him
Wednesday at a local hotel in Manchester.
When she arrived, Jackson, carrying a badge and gun, told
her she was under arrest. He made her take off her clothes
and consent to a body cavity search before letting her go,
said Ocean County Assistant Prosecutor Martin Anton.
The prosecutor said Jackson overstepped his bounds as a
law enforcement official when he placed the female
prostitute under arrest and performed a strip search.
As a police officer, Jackson had authority to make
arrests, but not through an undercover operation of his
own, Anton said.
``And a male to strip-search a female is just not done,''
he added.
The woman reported the incident to authorities the next
day, after she talked to law enforcement officers she knew
who said Jackson's behavior was illegal.
Jackson had been a police officer with Human Services for
about six years. The department has about 75 officers
working in various institutions and psychiatric hospitals
or, in Jackson's case, with children's services case
officers.
Jackson was assigned to the Division of Youth and Family
Services' Monmouth South office in Asbury Park.
Ed Rogan, a spokesman for the state Department of Human
Services, expected that Jackson would be suspended by
Monday, with proceedings leading to his termination
starting soon after.
Jackson, who is free on $50,000 bail, faces five to 10
years in prison if convicted.
Original link: http://www.newsradio88.com/pages/128362.php?contentType=4&contentId=244351
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