PHOENIX -- A Scottsdale police officer resigned Wednesday afternoon in the face of allegations that he performed an illegal search on a 19-year-old woman, authorities said.

Officer Chong S. Kim, who has worked for the Scottsdale Police Department for a little more than two years, was originally placed on paid administrative leave pending the outcome of an internal investigation, the East Valley Tribune reported.

According to the woman’s mother, Laura McClure, her daughter first called police in the early morning of June 15 after several people apparently tried to gain entry into her 66th Place apartment.

When officers responded, McClure said, they asked if her daughter had been drinking, then sent her boyfriend out of the apartment and "strip-searched" the woman.

A police report made from the address of the alleged incident that morning said a man near the residence was cited for having an open container of alcohol in a vehicle at the apartment, the Tribune reported, and it was not clear what the man's relationship was with the 19-year-old woman, if any.

The daughter has since moved out of the apartment.