It was a Houston police officer’s word against a woman he had accused of being a prostitute. But now, after a recording she had taken surfaced, it is the officer who finds himself in serious legal trouble. What investigators heard during that recording lead them to drop charges against the woman and file new charges against the officer.
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Sworn to uphold the law, Officer Roccaforte is now accused of breaking it. The 57-year-old HPD vice officer allegedly lied on an offense report so he could arrest and charge 46-year-old Phyllis Stokely with prostitution.
Donna Hawkins with the Harris County District Attorney’s Office explained, “The actual terms between the agreement between the officer and the suspect did not rise to the level of a prostitution charge.”
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“After telling the male he was wasting his time, she stated the male identified himself as a police officer and arrested her for prostitution,” the court documents continued.
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