A JSO Internal Affairs investigation sustains a sexual battery charge against a former officer, but he will not be charged.
We first told you about Patrol Officer Adam Boyd in mid-April, when he was arrested for grand theft, petit theft, and official misconduct for billing secondary employment that he wasn't actually working. Boyd was supposed to be patrolling various apartment complexes and shopping plazas as a security guard, but he's accused of only working a fraction of the hours he was billing for.
The Internal Affairs documents we’ve been working through show those charges stemmed from a separate investigation Boyd was facing over his actions with known prostitutes.
Boyd was found to have “frequent consensual sexual relations for money with a known prostitute”, according to the investigation. He was further found to have forced sexual intercourse on another prostitute while in his JSO uniform and armed with his issued gun. Investigators say Boyd also drove his marked patrol car to the scene, although they could not conclude if he was actually on duty at the time.
The information started coming in to JSO in January. While working a human trafficking investigation, detectives spoke with two prostitutes who told them about an officer having sex with a prostitute. Detectives determined that officer to be Boyd. Investigators later spoke with a woman who claimed Boyd “advised he would look out for them to make sure no one investigated them with their ‘Back Page stuff’,” according to the documents.
The battery happened when one of the women- who told investigators she didn’t want to have sex with Boyd but didn’t think she could resist him- was home waiting for a friend. Instead, she says Boyd showed up and told her that her friend wouldn’t interrupt them because he had parked his marked police car outside. She says he forced her to have sex, wearing his uniform the whole time. The woman told JSO the same thing happened about a month later, but she was high at the time.
An additional note in the documents restates that the woman felt she would be arrested if she did not let the officer have sex with her. Boyd was armed at the time of the attacks, according to investigators.
The woman further says that even after she moved away, she would get calls on her phone from a blocked number- who she later determined to be Boyd trying to locate her.
While the internal investigation sustained the charges of sexual batter and code of conduct violation, the State Attorney’s Office says they will not be prosecuting because they are not likely to get a conviction. The documents show the Assistant State Attorney acknowledges “probable cause does exist to arrest Boyd for sexual battery”, but they do not have physical evidence or witnesses.
“As with any case, the burden of prosecution is much higher than probable cause. While probable cause is enough to sustain an Internal Affairs complaint, the State has to prove a crime beyond a reasonable doubt,” then State Attorney’s Office further says to WOKV.
Boyd resigned shortly after he was arrested for the theft related charges. He had been with JSO 14 years.
JSO declined any further comment beyond what’s included in the investigation.