A sergeant in Florida abused the police database for years to have sex with women

A sergeant Bradenton Police Department (PBO), in the Florida, he used official database as application of private meetings, denounced the head of the unit, Melanie Bevan. An investigation determined that For years, Leonel Marines searched for information about women and then used them to have bad with them..

Marines I was 12 in the PBO, where he held a supervisor position when he resigned in October. The investigation has continued and five detectives contacted approximately 150 women with whom the sergeant improperly communicated from the data that he found in official systems. "He maintained this behavior since years, since 2012"Bevan explained.

"To get straight to the point, Leonel Marines did not use this data for repressive purposes."continued the head of the department. Instead, she used them in different ways – from social networks, unsolicited phone calls, home visits pretending that he was taking on a police caseno matter, to try to have appointments with these women. He was very persistent and sometimes succeeded. "

The investigation started after the complaint from the parents of a woman which Marines had talked about in a parking lot. On their way to their house, the The woman had the impression that the sergeant was following her. She had barely arrived as the officer knocked on the door.

He said that he wanted to talk to him about a "domestic matter". But the parents asked him what this matter was and, When the marines refused to give details, they asked him for the name of his boss. The sergeant did not answer and left; The woman's family called the PBO to report what happened.

When his superiors asked him questions about it, the Marines said that he had followed the woman because he was missing a light on his car. Later, he added that he had the impression of driving while drunk. The change in history has led Bevan to be wary and to order the investigationsince it was not the first episode of this content in which the officer was involved.

According to the newspaper The Bradenton Herald, in March 2012 a woman filed the first complaint against the Marines. The sergeant had repeatedly presented to him and asked him personal questions that were not related to an investigation. She did not know him personally either. Finally, one day, he told her not to come back and reported it.

"When an audit of the Marine's entry into the database was made with information on drivers and cars, the researchers found that had searched the woman's driver's license information twice, on November 23, 2011 and March 14, 2012"said the middle of nearby Tampa, on the Gulf of Mexico.

Home Affairs took the case. When the policeman asked him why he was looking for information about the woman, he replied "that there was no particular reason, that they had friends in common and he was curious"The same audit revealed potentially dubious access to data from eight people." Mr. Marines stated that he had not recognized them and that he did not remember if he had done so in any case.

The abuse of the 2012 database resulted in a three-day suspension. But that did not deter the man, who continued to collect information reserved for women. According to Bevan, the researchers noted that in Marines research into the system, it was "a very clear trend to focus on female names before in men, "he said at a press conference.

The researchers contacted some 150 women in the course of the investigation; many of them seem to be Hispanic and do not speak English well.. The PBO manager believes that the database has allowed more women to be approached by the former police. The investigation determined that He had bad with some on duty.

The local investigation was closed, but the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) still working on the case. After the suspension, the Marines went to office work and then obtained an administrative license without payment, badge or weapon. In October, when he understood that they were going to fire him, he resigned.