Several California Highway Patrol officers are being investigated after it was discovered they were stealing nude shots of females arrested for drunk driving and sharing them among their colleagues in a racket that’s been going on for years.
Officer Sean Harrington of Martinez, California has been assigned to admin duties after admitting he’d shared nudes with other officers at least six times over the course of a few years. Yes, he still has a job.
He was rumbled after a 23-year-old woman, who’d been arrested on a DUI, discovered photos had been texted from her phone to unknown numbers while she was in police custody, when officers were in possession of her phone. Although Harrington had deleted the sent messages from her phone, the activity synced to her iPad and she was able to see the messages that were sent. Her DUI case has already been dismissed.
When questioned, Officer Harrington said he first learned of the nudes scheme while working at the Los Angeles office of the CHP. Another incident involves a 19-year-old woman who had bikini shots stolen by Harrington after being involved in a car accident and who was in hospital when he sent the texts. Harrington sent them to a CHP colleague Robert Hazelwood with the caption ‘Taken from the phone of my 10-15x while she's in X-rays. Enjoy buddy!!!’ Hazelwood responds: ‘No f------ nudes?’
The court documents detail several leering text conversations between the officers and another CHP officer Dion Simmons, in which they discuss the women’s ‘rocking’ bodies and breasts.
CHP Commissioner Joe Farrow said in a statement ‘The allegations anger and disgust me. We expect the highest levels of integrity and moral strength from everyone in the California Highway Patrol, and there is no place in our organisation for such behavior.’
So far no charges have been filed against the officers.
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This article originally appeared on The Debrief.