Medina -
King County prosecutors have filed a criminal charge against a Medina police officer for allegedly forcing a woman to have sex against her will.
30-year-old Ismael Gaston Garcia Ramirez is accused of trying to arrange for a drug charge and traffic offense against a Renton woman to "go away" in exchange for romantic involvement with her.
Ramirez is a four-year veteran of the department.
According to the court documents, the unwanted advance was the result of a traffic stop by the Medina police officer made last November.
He cited the driver, a woman from Renton, for driving with a suspended license and for marijuana possession.
She told investigators that while she was handcuffed in the back seat of his patrol car, he searched her vehicle and found a bag of marijuana.
When he returned he looked back at her repeatedly, she said, telling her she was "attractive and beautiful." Then he "reached over to fix her scarf and put his hand on her," documents stated.
At that point, she said she told him she had taken care of the suspended license charge and asked him not to cite her for the marijuana.
He allegedly told her not to "worry," that the "charges would go away," documents said.
According to the documents, Ramirez and the officer exchanged text messages the next day and arranged a meeting at an Issaquah pub.
Investigators say when he took her to his home in the Issaquah Highlands, he allegedly ignored her protests, and had sex with her "over her objection".
Court documents allege, "she told him she did not want to have sex but he pushed her down on the bed and proceeded anyway."
According to the documents, the officer did urge the King County prosecutor to drop the charges against the woman and they were dismissed.
The documents also indicate three days after the officer allegedly forced himself on the woman, he asked the Medina Police Department evidence custodian to not to test the marijuana, because he had "talked to the prosecutor and they're going to drop the marijuana part of the case, so it doesn't need to get tested."
Two-and-a-half weeks after the traffic stop, the woman was arraigned on the charges and a prosecutor said said she had no knowledge of Officer Ramirez asking to have the charges dropped.
30-year-old Ismael Gaston Garcia Ramirez is accused of trying to arrange for a drug charge and traffic offense against a Renton woman to "go away" in exchange for romantic involvement with her.
Ramirez is a four-year veteran of the department.
According to the court documents, the unwanted advance was the result of a traffic stop by the Medina police officer made last November.
He cited the driver, a woman from Renton, for driving with a suspended license and for marijuana possession.
She told investigators that while she was handcuffed in the back seat of his patrol car, he searched her vehicle and found a bag of marijuana.
When he returned he looked back at her repeatedly, she said, telling her she was "attractive and beautiful." Then he "reached over to fix her scarf and put his hand on her," documents stated.
At that point, she said she told him she had taken care of the suspended license charge and asked him not to cite her for the marijuana.
He allegedly told her not to "worry," that the "charges would go away," documents said.
According to the documents, Ramirez and the officer exchanged text messages the next day and arranged a meeting at an Issaquah pub.
Investigators say when he took her to his home in the Issaquah Highlands, he allegedly ignored her protests, and had sex with her "over her objection".
Court documents allege, "she told him she did not want to have sex but he pushed her down on the bed and proceeded anyway."
According to the documents, the officer did urge the King County prosecutor to drop the charges against the woman and they were dismissed.
The documents also indicate three days after the officer allegedly forced himself on the woman, he asked the Medina Police Department evidence custodian to not to test the marijuana, because he had "talked to the prosecutor and they're going to drop the marijuana part of the case, so it doesn't need to get tested."
Two-and-a-half weeks after the traffic stop, the woman was arraigned on the charges and a prosecutor said said she had no knowledge of Officer Ramirez asking to have the charges dropped.
