Ex-Tempe police officer sentenced to probation
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Posted: Wednesday, February 11, 2015 11:15 am | Updated: 11:23 am, Wed Feb 11, 2015.
Ex-Tempe police officer sentenced to probation Associated Press |
PHOENIX (AP) — A former Tempe Police Department officer accused of having sex with a drug trafficking suspect has been sentenced to probation.
A Maricopa County Superior Court judge on Wednesday sentenced Jessica Dever-Jakusz to 18 months of probation.
She pleaded guilty last month to attempting to commit hindering prosecution.
Authorities said Dever-Jakusz had sex with a man who was a target of an undercover drug investigation and told him he was under investigation. She resigned from the Police Department in October 2013.
According to police, Dever-Jakusz worked undercover with other Tempe narcotics detectives in an operation that targeted the sale of illegal drugs in and around downtown restaurants and bars.
Police said Dever-Jakusz’s revelations to the suspect scuttled a five-month undercover investigation.
Posted in Local, Tempe on Wednesday, February 11, 2015 11:15 am. Updated: 11:23 am.
