A booking photo shows the former officer, Nicholas Bloed. The year veteran of the Stockton Police Department had just been promoted to the rank of sergeant in February In , he was named employee of the month, with the police department boasting that he helped train new officers.
Now, San Joaquin County District Attorney Tori Verber Salazar has filed 15 charges against him, including assault by a public officer, bribery, sodomy by force, oral copulation by force, assault with intent to commit rape, and unauthorized use of computer services.
The criminal complaint comes after three women filed a lawsuit describing Bloed allegedly forcing them into various sex acts while on duty. In one incident, he allegedly forced himself on a woman in a room at a Stockton Motel 6. The undershirt had a collar on it with 'SPD' printed in white letters. He put his gun belt and radio on the desk, but did not turn the radio off.
Allen Sawyer is Bloed's attorney and said his client did meet these women while on duty, but said the sexual encounters were consensual. He said Bloed resigned after going through a Stockton police internal investigation.
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