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Two former female Oakhill prison guards are being charged with second-dagree sexual assault, even though they say the so-called victim — a prisoner — seduced them.

A year and a half ago, Correction’s Secretary Matt Frank said he would enforce a “zero tolerance” policy for sexual contact between prison staff and inmates.

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That is the background for what is believed to be the first case of its kind in Wisconsin.

On Thursday morning 39-year-old Christine Roberge, a former sergeant and 9-year prison veteran, and 29-year-old Heather Bartosch, who guarded inmates at Oakhill for seven years, will make initial court appearances on the sexual assault charges.

At the time of the alleged incidents last year both women were married — Bartosch to a Fitchburg police detective.

A letter from the inmate that was found by Roberge’s husband initiated the prison probe.

At first, the warden called the Fitchburg Police Department since Oakhill is in that jurisdiction. But Fitchburg couldn’t investigate because one suspect was married to a staff member.

So the county investigated and found the inmate seduced the guards at different times into having sexual relations in secluded areas of the prison.

According to the complaint, one guard became concerned when he could not find Roberge, who had left her post. He saw her coming out of a towel room with a prisoner.

The other guard was concerned for his own safety, as well as the safety of other correctional officers because he was unsure of what lengths either of them might go to keep it quiet, WISC-TV reported.

Bartosch said she became smitten with an inmate and even bought him gifts.

“I crossed the line. I knew it. It scared me,” she said. “I let myself get comfortable with someone I shouldn’t have.”

News 3 is not identifying the prisoner since he is a sexual assault victim.

The complaint also alleges that Roberge may have had a physical relationship with a second inmate, and wrote dirty letters to a third.

However, she is charged with just one count of second-degree sexual assault, as is Bartosch, which is a 40-year felony.

A correction’s spokesman told News 3 that policies and procedures at Oakhill are now under review.

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Two decorated former police detectives were convicted Thursday of moonlighting as hitmen for the mob in what a prosecutor described as “the most violent betrayal of the badge this city has ever seen.”

A federal jury deliberated for two days before announcing the verdicts against Louis Eppolito, 57, and Steven Caracappa, 64.

The two detectives, who spent a combined 44 years on the New York City Police force and once worked as partners, now face up to life in prison.

Eppolito and Caracappa were accused of leading a double life for years. In the daylight, they were respected city detectives, but at the same time, they moonlighted as hired killers for Luchese crime family underboss Anthony “Gaspipe” Casso.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Daniel Wenner described their crimes and mob association as “the bloodiest, most violent betrayal of the badge this city has ever seen.”

The ex-detectives were accused in eight murders, with prosecutors charging that they used their positions as crime fighters to aid the crime family - for a salary of $4,000 a month. That increased when the detectives personally handled the killing, authorities said; they were paid $65,000 for the slaying of a mobster during a phony traffic stop.

Casso also referred to the pair as his “crystal ball,” providing inside information on law enforcement interest in the mob world, authorities said. Caracappa, who retired in 1992, helped establish the city police department’s office for Mafia murder probes.

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Six Lexington police officers were administratively charged yesterday after an internal investigation into comments and photos they posted on the popular Web site MySpace.com.

Two of the officers — Joshua Cromer and Gene Haynes — were relieved of their sworn duties with pay, meaning they can no longer make arrests, until police officials determine whether they should be disciplined and how. Cromer and Haynes will continue to work for the police department, but turned in their badges, police cars and weapons yesterday.

The other four officers — Aaron Noel, Richard Sisk, Adam O’Quinn and Paul Stewart — will continue to work as arresting officers as disciplinary proceedings continue.

The six were administratively charged with a variety of violations including interfering with a criminal case, acting in a way that does not reflect favorably on the division and breaking guidelines officers are required to follow when making public statements about their jobs. The investigation is ongoing and additional charges might be made, officials said yesterday.

Police officials did not elaborate on why Cromer and Haynes were relieved of their sworn duties, but Cromer’s Web site is particularly controversial because of content relating to Cromer’s arrest of country music star John Michael Montgomery.

Montgomery was charged with driving under the influence of alcohol in February. On Cromer’s site, officers discussed the case and congratulated Cromer on such a high-profile arrest. His site also included an altered photograph — posted by Haynes — of Montgomery and a fan, in which Cromer’s face had been placed on the body of the fan.

The officers could not be reached for comment or did not return Herald-Leader phone messages yesterday.

The police department began investigating the Web sites on March 20, when another police officer informed a supervisor about the sites. That officer was “very disturbed” by some of the content on the Web pages, Chief Anthany Beatty said yesterday. Because of First Amendment concerns, the police department sought direction from the Urban County Government law department as it investigated.

On the Web pages, officers discussed their jobs, commented on arrests they had made and used derogatory language about gays and the mentally disabled.

Officers said they worked for the “snobby people of Lexington” or the “Lexington Fayette Urban Communist Government.” Many of the pages featured Lexington police badges or photos of the officers in uniform.

At a news conference yesterday morning, Beatty apologized to Fayette County citizens.

“I would ask that the citizens accept our apologies for anything that was said, stated or posted on the Web sites that was offensive to anyone in any fashion,” Beatty said. “Certainly it is not from the agency as a whole, and the parties who have been involved will be dealt with.”

Beatty would not say what the punishment might be for posting the comments on MySpace.com, but said discipline can include anything from a written reprimand to suspension to termination.

Although many of the officers’ pages have been cleaned up or deactivated, Beatty said yesterday that he is concerned about possible lawsuits, as well as how Cromer’s site might affect the Montgomery case, which is set to be back in court in Fayette County in April.

Assistant Fayette County Attorney Jack Miller said yesterday that the police department had notified his office about Cromer’s page.

“We are taking a look at it to see if there is anything that may have been compromised,” Miller said yesterday. He said it is too soon to tell whether Cromer’s page will affect the case.

But Montgomery’s attorneys, Jon Woodall and Brent Caldwell, said they think Cromer’s page will have a tremendous effect.

“I do know that in a DUI case the testimony of the arresting officer is crucial,” Woodall said yesterday. “Obviously, the officer’s credibility is in question at this point.”

Both attorneys said they have never seen conduct like this before from an arresting officer.

“I can’t fathom that anybody is ignorant enough to put such things in print,” Woodall said. “You run into bizarre things in this business frequently, but to see a group of police officers, who have power over us citizens, to be talking and carrying on the way they were in a public forum … just absolutely blows me away.”

There are no specific policies at the Lexington police department about what officers may post on Internet sites such as MySpace.com, a popular site where people around the world socialize and swap information. MySpace had more than 37 million unique visitors in February, according to a story this week in Business Week Online.

Beatty said the department will now look at creating such a policy.

“Seeing that kind of information out there and that kind of interaction going on was disappointing and shocking, in that I would expect that all police officers here would exercise better judgment in their actions,” Beatty said yesterday.

He stressed that only a few officers were involved in the MySpace activity.

“I would stake my reputation on the fact that 99 percent of the employees here are performing at the utmost of their capability at all times, and certainly are very respectful and very mindful of the public and the actions that they exhibit, whether on or off duty,” he said. “We have some individuals who are not representing us in the best light, and we will deal with that appropriately.”

Joshua Cromer
Officer since 2002
Charged with unbecoming conduct

Gene Haynes
Officer since 2001
Charged with unbecoming conduct and interfering in a case

Richard Sisk
Officer since 1999
Charged with unbecoming conduct

Aaron Noel
Officer since 2004
Charged with unbecoming conduct

Adam O’Quinn
Officer since 2003
Charged with public appearance and statements

Paul Stewart
Officer since 2003
Charged with unbecoming conduct

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Baltimore, Maryland

A Baltimore City police officer was arrested on charges that he took bribes from a suspect in return for failing to appear at the man’s criminal trial, according to court records.

Police charged Officer Walter Jackson-Hill, 35, with theft, bribery, extortion, obstruction of justice and other counts Friday after a six-month internal investigation revealed that he allegedly took a total of $1,150 from a man he had arrested. Jackson-Hill also agreed to try to get the suspect sentenced to probation rather than prison, according to the records.

Sources familiar with the case said the man, who was unnamed in the documents, had been arrested for a felony drug offense.

City police spokesman Matt Jablow said Jackson-Hill will likely be suspended without pay “very shortly.”

Jackson-Hill, a York, Pa., resident who has been a city police officer since 2000, could not be reached for comment yesterday.

Police Commissioner Leonard D. Hamm “has made the integrity of the department one of his highest priorities, and we will continue to be extremely proactive in identifying officers who either violate the general orders or in rare cases … break the law,” Jablow said. “It will not be tolerated.”

This case comes as the Police Department has been embarrassed by several high-profile corruption trials against its officers.

Three Southwestern District officers - part of a “flex squad” that has since been disbanded - will be tried on rape charges in May, and police documents say the squad stole from suspects they had arrested and planted drugs on people.

In a federal trial, two detectives have been accused of robbing drug addicts and pressuring dealers to split their profits with them.

Last month, a Baltimore grand jury questioned the arrest practices of the Police Department, particularly for narcotics cases, and called for police to cut in half the number of arrests that fail to result in criminal charges, saying such arrests erode public confidence in the Police Department.

Because Jackson-Hill’s case revolves partly around allegations of his purposeful failure to appear at a trial, the case is also likely to heighten tension between the Police Department and the Baltimore state’s attorney’s office. Last year, about 3,200 officers failed to appear for court dates in District Court, state’s attorney spokeswoman Margaret Burns said yesterday.

“This is an unusually high failure to appear rate,” she said. “The state’s attorney’s office has been working with the Baltimore Police Department to address that because when an officer fails to appear, we lose our case.”

Jablow disputed the figure, and said that officers sometimes have legitimate reasons for not appearing, but are still counted in the tally.

Lt. Paul Blair Jr., the city police union president, said criticism of Baltimore police officers for failing to appear in court is unfair, noting that officers are sometimes summoned during vacations or not given proper notice. Many officers receive 50 to 75 summons in a year, he said.

Blair said of Jackson-Hill that it would be “inappropriate to comment on a case I’m not familiar with,” but that “everyone is presumed innocent until they have their day in court.”

According to the charging documents, the matter came to the attention of police in October, when the man Jackson-Hill had arrested was interviewed for an “ongoing investigation involving the Southwestern District Flex Unit.” The man told police that Jackson-Hill detained him Sept. 11, 2005, and told the man he would “let him go” for $400.

Jackson-Hill arranged for the man’s girlfriend to give him $400 in Druid Hill Park and in exchange the officer said that “when the arrest came to trial in district court, he would fail to appear” and the charges would be dropped, according to the documents.

In December, Jackson-Hill did not appear at the man’s trial in District Court. He was on medical leave, the documents said. Jackson-Hill failed to appear for a second court date in February because “he reported to be on medical leave,” and the trial was rescheduled for tomorrow.

On Friday, while being recorded and videotaped at a gasoline station at Cold Spring Lane and Falls Road, the man gave Jackson-Hill $750 in cash with recorded serial numbers that had been provided to him by police investigators.

The man asked Jackson-Hill what he would get for the money, and Jackson-Hill said, according to the documents, that the case would result in probation.

Police arrested Jackson-Hill, who worked on the department’s west-side “special enforcement team” - officers who focus on traffic enforcement, serving warrants and “quality of life” crimes, such as loitering, trespassing and disorderly conduct - about 8 p.m. Friday.

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