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Portland officer accused of threatening women resigns04:35 PM PDT on Tuesday, August 4, 2009
By kgw.com Staff
PORTLAND, Ore. – A Portland police officer accused of harassing women and girls over the phone resigned before a termination hearing Tuesday.
Investigators believe 28-year-old officer Joseph Edward Wild made sexually explicit phone calls on his bureau cell phone to female officers, a teen involved in a rape case, a woman in a domestic violence case and to a 14-year-old girl.
Wild pleaded not guilty to charges of telephone harassment and official misconduct in June. He remains in the Multnomah County jail on $132,500 bail.
Wild is accused of calling three policewomen who were attending a police training academy, and making sexually explicit calls while on patrol duty.
Officer Joseph Wild
In another instance, a 16-year-old involved in a rape case told investigators she had received numerous phone calls from a man who said he had sex with her on a specific day last March. The teen told investigators that she was drunk on that date, had passed out and had no recollection of having sex.
A check of Wild’s cell phone record showed the calls came from Wild’s bureau phone. Also, on the date in question, Wild responded to a radio call and took the teen to a facility for missing juveniles.
Investigators also learned that Wild made eight calls in a 30-minute time span in early March to a woman who a day earlier had reported being the victim of domestic violence.
Information about the call was written into Wild’s field notebook. The woman said the caller threatened to come to her house and rape her. She hung up. The phone rang again and the caller said he was in her home, downstairs, and was going to rape her.
Wild also is thought to have made over 50 phone calls between February and April to a 14-year-old girl, involving threats of violent sex, prosecutors say.
Portland officer accused of threatening women resigns04:35 PM PDT on Tuesday, August 4, 2009
By kgw.com Staff
PORTLAND, Ore. – A Portland police officer accused of harassing women and girls over the phone resigned before a termination hearing Tuesday.
Investigators believe 28-year-old officer Joseph Edward Wild made sexually explicit phone calls on his bureau cell phone to female officers, a teen involved in a rape case, a woman in a domestic violence case and to a 14-year-old girl.
Wild pleaded not guilty to charges of telephone harassment and official misconduct in June. He remains in the Multnomah County jail on $132,500 bail.
Wild is accused of calling three policewomen who were attending a police training academy, and making sexually explicit calls while on patrol duty.
Officer Joseph Wild
In another instance, a 16-year-old involved in a rape case told investigators she had received numerous phone calls from a man who said he had sex with her on a specific day last March. The teen told investigators that she was drunk on that date, had passed out and had no recollection of having sex.
A check of Wild’s cell phone record showed the calls came from Wild’s bureau phone. Also, on the date in question, Wild responded to a radio call and took the teen to a facility for missing juveniles.
Investigators also learned that Wild made eight calls in a 30-minute time span in early March to a woman who a day earlier had reported being the victim of domestic violence.
Information about the call was written into Wild’s field notebook. The woman said the caller threatened to come to her house and rape her. She hung up. The phone rang again and the caller said he was in her home, downstairs, and was going to rape her.
Wild also is thought to have made over 50 phone calls between February and April to a 14-year-old girl, involving threats of violent sex, prosecutors say.
