OBETZ, Ohio -- An Obetz police officer accused of engaging in sexual activity with a woman he had just arrested pleaded guilty Monday.
Officer Vernon Wolford faces up to five years in prison for the sexual battery charge -- a third-degree felony.
In November, Vernon arrested a woman wanted in Florida for probation violation. According to a search warrant, she told investigators that Vernon asked her "you want to go home," as she sat in the back of the police cruiser in handcuffs. The woman said she then performed the sex act and later reported the incident after arriving at the Franklin County Corrections Center.
A state crime lab later tested a substance on the woman's tennis shoe and determined it was Wolford's semen.
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