Pinal detective resigns over sexual encounter

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Why do we not see any of these cops on the media? Maybe protecting the "corrupt good ole' boys?"

04/24/2007

MESA — Officials dismissed charges in a police investigation after they discovered a detective with the Pinal County Sheriff's Office had a sexual encounter with an alleged victim of a sex crime, according to an internal affairs report.

The report, obtained by the East Valley Tribune this month, shows that the Sheriff's Office learned of the May 15 encounter in October and began investigating Detective William P. Langan.

Langan submitted a letter of resignation on Nov. 6.

In the report, the Sheriff's Office determined the detective had a sexual encounter with a reported rape victim after the arrest of her husband.

The case against her husband was dismissed because of the encounter, according to paperwork filed Nov. 14 in Pinal County Superior Court.

The report says Langan first met the woman at an advocacy center, where she underwent a sexual-assault examination. Langan told an investigator that the sexual encounter took place about two weeks after the arrest when he went to her home to talk about the dynamics of domestic violence.

"She just . . . indicated that, you know, she needed a hug or something," Langan told the investigator. Langan said the woman began kissing him and removed part of her clothing.

"I think, at that point I should have gotten up," he told the investigator. "I shouldn't have even done anything, but I did. And then one thing kind of led to the other and then we did have sex."

The woman's account slightly differs. She told the investigator that Langan had made comments about her beauty and asked her if she liked to look at pornography.

In 2005, Langan was working on an investigation into child pornography when he met a woman who later told a detective that Langan made attempts to seduce her. The report says Langan's actions reduced the state's chances of prosecution in that case.