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A Raleigh police officer is facing additional sex crime charges nearly a month after he was charged with coercing a crash victim into sexual favors to remove a DWI charge.
According to court documents, a grand jury indicted Tremale Cogdell, 28, on five counts of soliciting prostitution. Court documents said the crimes happened between August 1 and September 15 and involved five different people.
The Raleigh Police Department announced an internal investigation that accused Cogdell for committing a sex crime while he was on duty earlier this month.
Police accused Cogdell of obstruction of justice by “failing to conduct and charge a DWI investigation in exchange for sexual acts. This offense was done in secrecy and malice.”
The crime is believed to have happened in the early morning hours of Sept. 12.
“After completing a call for service, Mr. Cogdell drove the victim back to his personal residence in his city of Raleigh police vehicle and a sexual encounter occurred while Mr. Cogdell was on duty,” said Rico Boyce, Raleigh’s Chief of Police.
Boyce said the State Bureau of Investigation contacted RPD on Sept. 26 about the incident involving Cogdell. Cogdell was then put on administrative leave that same day, according to Boyce.
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