Police Release Limited Information On Internal Probe
INDIANAPOLIS -- An Indianapolis police officer is under investigation, accused of threatening to take a stripper to jail if she didn't give him money.
At first, investigators suspected a police impersonator was behind the crime, but they now think it was one of their own.
Officer Dwayne May, with the department's vice unit, is under investigation in the incident. Sources told 6News he robbed the victim, whom he met at a strip club.
According to a police report, the robbery happened Thursday at a BP gas station at 38th Street and High School Road.
Police said May gave the woman a ride home and that they stopped at a gas station, where the woman's boyfriend met up with her.
Police said May then became demanding, ordering the boyfriend back to his car and said he wanted $60 back from the woman before taking $160, including $100 she'd made at the club that night.
6News tried to contact the woman involved Monday morning, but no one came to the door.
Police confirmed that there is an internal investigation, but declined to release additional information.
Sgt. Bill Owensby with the Fraternal Order of Police union Monday criticized leadership within the police department.
"I don't know there's a problem with midlevel management on down. I think the problem is we're not being told what direction we're going. We're not being told what the future holds for us," he said.
Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard wouldn't comment on the latest police scandal specifically, but said he knows the department has an image problem.
"I'm mostly concerned with what the public thinks about IMPD, that's the part I really have to work on," he said. "(But) despite all these issues, violent crime continues to go down in the city."
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