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State trooper sentenced for forcing couples to disrobe
Issue date: 11/6/06 Section: News Briefs
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A Lake County judge sentenced an Illinois State Police trooper to 30 months probation Wednesday for forcing couples to strip off their clothes to avoid arrest.
Jeremy Dozier, 32, who pleaded guilty to official misconduct the same day, must serve a year in jail if he violates any conditions of his supervision, the (Arlington Heights) Daily Herald reported.
In a similar case, a Cook County judge sentenced Dozier in March to six months in jail and two years probation for forcing a couple to strip after he found them in a parked car along a highway. In that case, a jury found him guilty of four counts of bribery and four counts of misconduct.
In the Lake County cases, Dozier ordered a couple he found parked behind a Gurnee store on Feb. 5, 2005 to remove their clothes and make snow angels. He also admitted that he forced another couple parked near a hotel in Gurnee later that year to run naked in a parking lot.
The victims all said Dozier threatened them with arrest if they did not do as he said.
The 10-year veteran of the state police has been suspended since his first arrest and further disciplinary action is pending, said Waukegan attorney Michael Melius.
In June, a couple in one of the Cook County incidents filed a federal lawsuit against Dozier. Dimitry Baum, 23, and his fiancée, Maria "Masha" Boyko, 19, are seeking unspecified damages.
Jeremy Dozier, 32, who pleaded guilty to official misconduct the same day, must serve a year in jail if he violates any conditions of his supervision, the (Arlington Heights) Daily Herald reported.
In a similar case, a Cook County judge sentenced Dozier in March to six months in jail and two years probation for forcing a couple to strip after he found them in a parked car along a highway. In that case, a jury found him guilty of four counts of bribery and four counts of misconduct.
In the Lake County cases, Dozier ordered a couple he found parked behind a Gurnee store on Feb. 5, 2005 to remove their clothes and make snow angels. He also admitted that he forced another couple parked near a hotel in Gurnee later that year to run naked in a parking lot.
The victims all said Dozier threatened them with arrest if they did not do as he said.
The 10-year veteran of the state police has been suspended since his first arrest and further disciplinary action is pending, said Waukegan attorney Michael Melius.
In June, a couple in one of the Cook County incidents filed a federal lawsuit against Dozier. Dimitry Baum, 23, and his fiancée, Maria "Masha" Boyko, 19, are seeking unspecified damages.
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