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MIAMI – A Miami-Dade police lieutenant and high-ranking union member was booked into a Palm Beach County jail late Friday on rape charges, records show. Lt. John Jenkins , who last week resigned as as executive vice president of the South Florida Police Benevolent Association, is charged with two counts of sexual battery, according to Palm Beach Sheriff’s jail booking log. An arrest report .
Florida police lieutenant arrested on rape charges
May 8, 2021 GMT
MIAMI (AP) A Miami-Dade police lieutenant who was also a high-ranking member of a police union has been arrested on rape charges.
The Miami Herald reports the alleged incident took place last month at a police union gala in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida.
Jail records show John Jenkins was arrested late Friday on two counts of sexual battery. He was released Saturday.
The newspaper says Jenkins resigned last week as executive vice president of the South Florida Police Benevolent Association.
“I’m shocked and extremely disturbed by the charges,” the union president Steadman Stahl told the newspaper on Saturday.