Fayetteville officer's firing linked to sexual assault investigation


FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. —According to documents obtained by 40/29, former Fayetteville Police officer David Nguyen’s termination is linked to another officer who was fired and also charged with rape.
Documents say a woman told Nguyen she had been sexually assaulted by former officer Jamison Stiles, but he did not report it to supervisors.
The report goes on to say Nguyen never told a supervisor about the reported sexual assault until he was directly questioned by investigators.
Authorities said in a 108-page investigation report on Jamison Stiles -- the former police officer accused of rape  -- that the current accusations against him are not the first time he has been questioned about inappropriate contact with a woman while on duty.
The investigative documents indicate Stiles twice made several trips to a woman’s apartment and turned off his video camera used to record police conversations.
Stiles was put on administrative leave in December after a woman reported he entered her apartment and touched her inappropriately.
Police documents indicate Stiles went to Jr’s Lightbulb Club in Fayetteville on Oct. 26 for a call about a woman passed out at the bar. Investigators said he drove the woman to her apartment and dropped her off.
Stiles made several more trips to the apartment complex where the woman lives. The report states Stiles did not record any of those trips in his daily log.
Officers said they spoke with Stiles several months earlier that year about a similar situation. The report indicates Stiles dropped another woman off at her apartment after she had been drinking. He turned his recording device off for 10 minutes during that stop.
Stiles then took the woman to her boyfriend’s apartment, but did not record the trip in his daily lo