A
40-year-old police officer in San Antonio, Texas is facing charges of felony
sexual assault after a 19-year-old woman accused him of handcuffing and raping
her during a traffic stop over the weekend.
According
to an arrested warrant obtained by the San Antonio Express-News, Officer Jackie
Len Neal pulled over the teen, telling her that her car was reported stolen.
Even
though the woman produced a sales slip for the vehicle, Neal insisted on
patting her down. The woman told him she felt uncomfortable with the pat down
and asked for a female officer, but he ignored her, the warrant said. The woman
was allegedly groped, placed in handcuffs and then taken to the back of his
patrol car.
Neal
was accused of raping the woman and instructing her to keep it a secret.
At
the time of the alleged assault, video cameras mounted in Neal’s cruiser were
not functioning because a hard drive was missing. However, a GPS tracking
system did corroborate that the police cruiser was parked for 18 minutes on
Betty Street as the woman had claimed.