Ex-Arizona state trooper pleads not guilty in sex extortion case
Sep 27, 2019, 4:30 PM
Tremaine Anthony Jackson (Maricopa County Sheriff's Office Photo)
(Maricopa County Sheriff's Office Photo)
PHOENIX – The former Arizona state trooper accused of trying to extort multiple women he’d pulled over for sexual favors pleaded not guilty Thursday.
Tremaine Anthony Jackson, 43, was arrested earlier this month and terminated from his job after the Department of Public Safety completed an investigation of allegations made by eight women.
The booking document (WARNING: explicit content) included a 26-page probable cause statement that shows a pattern of how Jackson allegedly preyed on women he found attractive during incidents from Oct. 2018 to March 2019.
According to the statement, he repeatedly prolonged traffic stops for longer-than-normal time periods while trying to coerce women into dating him or performing sexual favors before he’d let them go. The victims went along with his demands in some cases under the threat of being arrested.
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Jackson was initially booked on 61 counts, but he was officially charged with 23 crimes, including multiple counts of kidnapping, forgery, fraud and bribery.
The kidnapping charges were the result of Jackson allegedly keeping victims for longer than was appropriate during traffic stops.
He’s also accused of falsifying times, locations and violations in traffic stop reports and submitting false overtime claims.
At the time of his arrest Sept. 10, Jackson had been with DPS for 13 years.
He’d been on leave since June 11, when a sexual abuse complaint was lodged, and was previously under investigation for allegedly making inappropriate comments to a woman he’d pulled over in May.
Jackson’s initial pretrial conference was scheduled for Nov. 12.
Investigators have been working to find additional possible victims.
Anybody with information about crimes Jackson may have committed was asked to contact DPS at 602-223-2389 or submit information online.
