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Officer Hector Aaron Ruiz, [photo], was booked on sexual assault charges Wednesday to jail
A Texas cop was suspended after allegedly sexually assaulting a woman he pulled over for running a stop sign, officials said.
Officer Hector Aaron Ruiz, 24, of the Arcola Police Dept in Fort Bend County, was arrested Wednesday after the victim reported the alleged incident, according to KHOU.
The 23-year-old woman told authorities that Ruiz stopped her on Nov. 16 in Manvel and requested she follow him in her car.
She said the cop brought her to an isolated residential street then coerced her into a sex act, KHOU reported.
He was booked into jail on sexual assault charges Wednesday.
Arcola Police said Ruiz has been suspended indefinitely without pay and an internal investigation was launched, news station KTRK reported.
“The utter violation of public trust that these allegations represent is heinous and disgraceful,” Fort Bend County District Attorney Brian Middleton said in a statement.
The District Attorney’s office at a press conference Thursday, said that based on their investigation so far, they believe the alleged sexual assault Officer Ruiz is accused of may not be his first offense.
They believe there may be more victims out there & are asking them to please come forward.
Ruiz graduated from the University of Houston-Downtown in 2017, according to his bio on the department’s website. He then joined the Arcola Police Department as a reserve officer in March 2018, becoming a full-time police officer in September last year.
His bond was set at a total of $400,000. He remains in jail as of late Thursday morning.
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