Fairfax County Police Watch: This weeks rapes and sexual assaults by your local police

Boynton Beach police officer seeks release while awaiting trial on rape charge

Stephen Maiorino accused of raping woman at gunpoint while on duty

BOYNTON BEACH, Fla. -

A South Florida police officer is seeking his release from jail as he faces an accusation of rape.

Stephen Maiorino, 35, of the Boynton Beach Police Department was arrested in October after a 20-year-old woman said he raped her at gunpoint while on duty.

A judge presided over a four-hour hearing Friday on the officer's request to be released while awaiting trial. She says she'll rule as quickly as she can.

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St. Louis, Missouri Police Department Officer Steve Blakeney Allowed to Patrol Despite Drugging, Rape Accusations

By Glenn Minnis

Steve Blakeney quickly rose through the ranks of the Pine Lawn police department, joining the force in 2009 and climbing to the rank of commander by the time he left in late 2014. Theoretically, his law enforcement license still allows him to be hired by another department.

Fox2Now.com reports as quickly as the promotions came, so too did the allegations of abuse. According to the station, the claims against Blakeney span nearly a decade and stretch all the way from St. Louis to the suburb of St. Charles.

In one September 2014 incident, Billy Baker claims he observed Blakeney parked in an unmarked car outside an area bowling alley around 3 a.m. ready "to prey on women that he thought were drunk."

Baker added of the three women he had been entrusted to take home that night that "he wanted them to get in the car." When he intervened, Baker said the officer "punched me in the face."

Eventually, cops were able to track down the vehicle and tie it to Blakeney after Baker was able to give them the license plate number. When cops interviewed him, Blakeney's story vastly differed from that of other witnesses, but within months he was fired by the department after several other women claimed that same year they awoke to find themselves "in his home and couldn't remember how they got there."

Blakeney was also accused by a 21-year-old woman of "forcible rape" in 2012; and as far back as 2006, TheFreeThought.com reports an 18-year-old female claimed he gave her a pill and she awoke to find his "hands down her pants" while on the stage at a bar he then managed.

In the past, the St. Charles County Police Department has investigated Blakeney, but he has never been criminally charged. Fox adds Blakeney has denied all the charges, but, when pressed for explanations, emailed the station a cease and desist order.

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Ex-Ann Arbor police officer charged with three felonies has court appearance postponed

By Darcie Moran

A former Ann Arbor Police officer who resigned over the summer amid allegations that he offered women leniency in exchange for sex is now set to appear in court in February.

Jason Jackson Kitts, 38, of Westland appeared in 14A-1 District Court with Assistant Washtenaw County Public Defender Gina Novesky on Thursday for a probable cause hearing that was ultimately adjourned to Feb. 26.

His preliminary examination, which was set for Feb. 3, has been moved to March 5.

Novesky requested Washtenaw County District Court Judge J. Cedric Simpson adjourn the case because of additional discovery materials she had just received. She also expected further discovery materials to come as well, she said.

Kitts is charged with three counts of misconduct in office and one misdemeanor count of unauthorized access of the Law Enforcement Information Network, according to a release from the Washtenaw County Prosecutor's Office.

The charges stem from a Michigan State Police investigation into citizen complaints about an officer's behavior.

Kitts worked for the Ann Arbor Police Department eight years before resigning. City records show he made $76,861.91 in fiscal year 2013-14.

Misconduct in office is a felony punishable by up to five years in prison and a $10,000 fine.

Unauthorized LEIN access is a misdemeanor punishable by up to 93 days in jail and a $500 fine.

Kitts was previously released on a personal recognizance bond.

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Serco,

Loudoun County,

Grant Thornton,

Prince William Convention and Visitors Bureau and

Booz Allen Hamilton.

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Morrogh finds cop he doesn’t love. In other news, hell freezes.

Probe of fatal police shooting goes to federal authorities

By Justin Jouvenal/Post

The Fairfax County prosecutor has turned over the investigation of a fatal police shooting of an unarmed Springfield man to federal authorities, citing complications with the five-month-old case.

Commonwealth’s Attorney Ray Morrogh said the U.S. attorney’s office for the Eastern District of Virginia has agreed to continue the probe into the death of 46-year-old John Geer, who was shot during a standoff with Fairfax County police in August. No one has been charged in the incident.

“There is a conflict of interest that has arisen in the case,” Morrogh said Thursday. “And there is a second potential conflict of interest that has arisen out of my office. . . . This is the prudent thing to do.”

Morrogh declined to describe the nature of the conflicts because the investigation is ongoing. The U.S. attorney’s office said Thursday that it could not confirm or deny any investigation or comment on pending investigations.

Police went to Geer’s Pebble Brook Court home on Aug. 29 because of a report of a domestic disturbance. Geer’s father, Don Geer, said his son was upset because his girlfriend, the mother of his two children, had decided to leave him.

John Geer had thrown his girlfriend’s belongings in the front yard. She called police and told them that Geer had a firearm. Police said they tried for about 50 minutes to persuade Geer to leave the home, but he refused.

Don Geer said he watched the climax of the encounter. He said that he could not hear what officers were saying to his son but that he saw him standing with empty hands resting on top of a screen door at the home’s entrance.

At some point, John Geer began to slowly lower his hands and an officer opened fire, hitting Geer in the chest, his father said. Geer retreated inside and closed the door. A SWAT team eventually entered the home and found Geer dead.

Don Geer said detectives later told him that his son did not have a gun on him at the time of the shooting but that there was a holstered handgun a couple of steps from the front door.

Don Geer said it appeared to him that the shooting was unjustified, but he was unsure what to make of the probe being turned over to federal authorities.

“I don’t know whether that’s good or bad — if I had a better idea of why they are doing it, I could form an opinion,” he said.

Geer and friends of his son have been critical of how long the investigation has taken, but Morrogh said police and prosecutors were working to explore all the evidence. He did not think federal prosecutors would have to start from scratch.

“No one wants these things to linger on,” Morrogh said.

Our ink will outlast his career

Under the reign of former Chief of Police Rhorer the Fairfax County Police arrested a man for not wearing clothes in his house while he made coffee, set up an eye doctor on a gambling charge and then used the SWAT team to kill him. An investigation into the charge that the Doctor’s primary clients were cops has never been investigated. The police gunned down an emotionally unstable man because cop who shot him wrongly assumed the man was trying to escape. He wasn’t. The cops also shot dead four other citizens under highly questionable circumstances. The department under Rhorer was sued multiple times by citizens. So did they fire Rhorer? Naw they promoted him. According to news reports Rhorer draws a salary of $191,168 per year as Deputy Fairfax County Executive as well as a concurrent pension from the Fairfax County police of $173000 per year.

Occupation by force

According to the most recent U.S. Census figures, nearly one in five Fairfax residents (17.5 percent) is of Asian descent while Hispanics make up nearly 16 percent of Fairfax’s overall population. Those numbers drop considerably when applied to the Fairfax County Police Department, where only 4.3 percent of officers are Asian and 4.1 percent Hispanic. White officers make up 84 percent of Fairfax County’s 1,360-member police department, significantly higher than the county’s general population (54 percent white). Almost 90% of the force lives outside the county.