a San Diego Police Officer He is currently out of the job after he was accidentally locked in the back of a patrol car with a female suspect.
Late in the evening on August 14, 2023, Officer Anthony Hare, who has served with the San Diego Police Department for two years, and other officers pursued two suspects wanted in connection with a stolen vehicle. One of the suspects was a woman who also had an outstanding arrest warrant.
“I was trying to wake her up when I realised the door was closed. That’s when I struggled to open the door.”
The woman, whose name has not been released, was arrested and placed in the back of Hare’s patrol car, where she began making advances on Hare as the pair headed to the Las Colinas Detention Center.
“Are you single?” she asked. picture It was captured on Hare’s body camera.
When he answered in the affirmative, she made her intentions clear: “I want to have sex right now,” she said. World Kennedy.
She told Hare she had a boyfriend, but acknowledged that there was a reason she approached him: “It’s not your fault. What harm is it if I play the system? You know? That’s the way I see it.”
Hare then warned him to keep such comments to himself. “Don’t say that now,” Hare is heard saying, according to the recording. “It’s all on tape right now, so don’t say that now.”
Rather than proceed directly to the detention center, Hare walked a few blocks away into a residential area and parked his car just after 1:30 a.m. on August 15. His body camera was then turned off.
About 20 minutes later, Hare made a frantic call to a fellow officer, whose recollection of the conversation is as follows:
I heard and noticed Officer Hare sounding panicked. I asked him if he was OK. He replied “yes” and asked if he had the keys to his patrol car. I asked him why he was asking and what he needed. Officer Hare then asked if he could come and meet him. I asked him where he was and he said he was near Cottonwood. I asked him why he needed me and he said he would let me know when he got there. He said he was very embarrassed.
Within an hour, a supervisor arrived and opened the locked patrol vehicle, after which traces of semen were reportedly found on the belt Hare had been wearing that night.
The Internal Affairs and Communications Division opened an investigation into the incident last month. Hare has denied having an inappropriate relationship with the suspect and has maintained that she had a medical condition and that he had parked his patrol car and climbed into the back seat to check on her.
“I was trying to wake her up when I noticed the door was closed. That’s when I tried to open the door,” he told the New York Post.
He also denied intentionally turning off his body camera, claiming it was accidentally removed when he exited his vehicle.
The woman similarly denied that the two had had a tryst. That night However, Hare hinted that he was romantically interested in her: “He said he wanted to date me once he was done with the warrant or whatever it was that got me arrested for,” she was quoted as saying.
Hare decided to resign the day before he was due to be interviewed for a second time on the allegations, which police have denied, and it is unclear whether he will be charged in connection with the incident.
SDPD did not respond to The Post’s request for comment.
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