A police officer for the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community in Arizona was arrested last month after he admitted to sexually abusing a woman in his car in exchange for $100.
Jay Wu, who had been with the department for ten years, believed he was doing the woman a favor for not citing her on shoplifting charges on March 29 after she told him she was in a desperate financial situation.
All he wanted was a quick feel on her breasts and buttocks for being such a nice guy. He even gave her his business card along with the c-note, telling her she was free to call him anytime.
But the 43-year-old woman ended up telling other officers from the same department what he did to her, sparking an investigation that led to his arrest and resignation two months later.
“Damn, Sarge,” Wu confided to a sergeant who had visited him at his home on June 1, the same day he resigned, according to documents obtained by the Phoenix New Times.
“All I did was give that bitch a hundred dollars to feel on her titties and she blew it all out of proportion.”
The Scottsdale Police Department, who had been investigating Wu on behalf of Salt River police, arrested him a week earlier but he had been released on his own recognizance.
The Maricopa County Attorney’s Office charged Wu with kidnapping, assault, and unlawful sexual conduct the same day he admitted to his crime.
It was only in 2008 when Wu was recognized for his heroics after running into a burning house and saving three women, including one in a wheelchair.
But perhaps he didn’t insist on fondling those women as he did to the woman he picked up for shoplifting from a Target last March.
The woman had stolen a pair of flip flops, some jewelry, barbecue sauce and other food items and told him she needed the items for her children. She also said she was going through a divorce.
Wu agreed to cite her instead of jailing her. And she then asked him for a ride home.
And then depending on which news report you believe, he was either driving her towards her apartment complex, but she asked to be dropped of elsewhere so her neighbors would not see her stepping out of a police car, or she asked to be dropped off at her apartment complex, but he kept driving, refusing to let her out.
Either way, they ended up in an area next to a wall, which offered him protection from nosy witnesses.
That was when he told her he needed to pat her down, which was basically sticking his hands down her pants and underneath her shirt, where she cupped her breasts and squeezed her nipples.
“Ohh, that’s nice,” he reportedly said while fondling her.
He then gave her the $100 bill and his business card, telling her to call him anytime. He also gave her the shoplifting citation.
When the woman got home, she told her boyfriend, who became furious, and called Wu, confronting him about the incident.
But Wu told the woman’s boyfriend that it was all consensual, even though that is still a felony in Arizona.
However, a month after the incident on April 25, Salt River police responded to a call from a local casino about the same woman who had entered their property after previously being banned.
Police found Wu’s business card along with a $100 bill, although it is not clear if it was the same bill from a month earlier.
But when they questioned her about Wu’s card, she told them he had sexually assaulted her, which was when they asked the Scottsdale Police Department to investigate.
Although Wu at first denied the allegations, he mentioned something about the $100, even though the investigating detective had not brought that up.
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