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Police: Officer Posts Sex Photos On eBay
POSTED: 8:20 am MST February 6,
2008
UPDATED: 11:08 am MST February 6,
2008
TEMPE, Ariz. -- A Tempe police officer posted explicit images of his ex-girlfriend for sale on eBay after she refused to have sex with him, court documents show.Tempe police said Officer Curtis Baumgarth's former live-in girlfriend contacted them Jan. 30 and reported that Baumgarth, 39, had been harassing her since October via phone and e-mail.Police said the harassment mostly took the form of text message threats and had escalated recently. According to court paperwork, Baumgarth sent the woman more than 115 text messages between Jan. 3 and Jan. 28.Baumgarth threatened to post pictures of his ex-girlfriend having sex with him on the Internet if she lied to him or refused to perform sexual favors, then offered the pictures for sale on eBay when she refused to comply, court documents show.He also told the woman he had run criminal histories on her male acquaintances, according to police.Baumgarth was arrested Tuesday at a Tempe police substation on charges of computer tampering to threaten and obtain confidential information, and obtaining an unauthorized criminal history.Baumgarth was hired as a Tempe police officer in 1994 and promoted to sergeant in 1999, according to KTAR-FM. He was demoted to an officer in 2005 for failing to perform essential duties of a police sergeant.According to authorities, since 2005, he has received two oral reprimands for failure to appear at a traffic court hearing and failure to impound found property.Baumgarth has been on light duty for approximately one year due to work injury, KTAR reported.ELSEWHERE ON KPHO.COM: A Dallas firefighter in town for the Super Bowl and hospitalized after a drive-by shooting in Peoria early Monday was taken off life support overnight. CLICK HERE for details. MORE SLIDESHOWS: From the bizarre to the tragic to late-breaking news, visit the KPHO.com slideshow section and click away! CLICK HERE for images.
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