Metro Officer Indicted On Rape And Misconduct Charges Streetwalkers...
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[quote]NASHVILLE, Tenn. – A decommissioned Metro police officer has been charged with several sex crimes involving four women while on duty.
Officer Jeffrey Poole surrendered himself at police headquarters Friday afternoon after a 12-count grand jury indictment. He was charged with four counts of rape, four counts of official misconduct, two counts of sexual battery, one count of patronizing prostitution, and one count of attempting to patronize prostitution.
The investigation began at the end of April when a 27-year-old known prostitute reported that Poole, in uniform and on-duty as South Precinct patrolman, stopped her as she walked the streets south of downtown. She told officers that Poole patted her down to the point of fondling her and that he appeared to make verbal propositions, but she said she rejected his advances.
Detectives then located and interviewed three other women who said that Poole allegedly had sexual contact with them in 2009 when he was on-duty uniformed patrolman in the East Precinct.
A 20-year-old woman reported that Poole arrested her on an outstanding warrant in April 2009, drove her to a secluded area, and began to fondler her under the guise of a search. She said she told Poole to just take her to jail, which Poole did, but not before allegedly giving her his phone number and offered a ride home when she was released.
A 30-year-old woman who frequented Dickerson Pike reported in late 2009, Poole approached her for sex. She said that Poole drove her in his police car to an abandoned lot and paid her for consensual acts.
A 35-year-old woman reported that in December 2009, Poole came to her Dickerson Pike motel room on-duty, in uniform, and raped her.
Poole graduated from the police academy in March 2008. He worked in the East Precinct from July 2008 until January of this year, when he transferred to the South Precinct.
Poole was decommissioned and ordered to stay away from police department facilities on May 18 based on the Sex Crimes Unit's investigation to that point.
Poole remained jailed on a $200,000 bond. He is set to be arraigned in the near future.[/quote]