Cop arrests teen, orders her to flash breasts

A former police officer has pleaded guilty to faking the arrest of an 18-year-old while on duty and promising to let her go if she exposed her breasts.

Officer Steven Patrick Boyle, 23, was charged with misconduct of a public official, a gross misdemeanor, fined $200 and placed on probation for one year, the Mankato Free Press reported. He avoided a 90-day jail sentence because the victim chose not to press charges.

Boyle, a part-time officer with the Amboy/Vernon Center Police Department in Minnesota, conspired with the teen's boyfriend and pretended to arrest her for underage drinking, handcuffed her and put her in the back of his patrol car. He then told her to flash her breasts – and she agreed.

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The officer has not been fired, though his name has been taken off the work schedule, and some reports indicate he resigned in August. Chris Rovney, assistant Blue Earth County attorney, said Boyle's law enforcement career is over.

"He's not ever going to be a cop in Minnesota again," Rovney told the Free Press. "I'm pretty much assured of that."

Initially, Boyle denied being in uniform during the incident.

"I was in plain clothes. I did not have my badge with me. I did not have my gun with me. I did not have anything other than shorts and a T-shirt and my personal car," Boyle told sheriff's deputies.

Rovney said Boyle's behavior was unnacceptable.

"It was just a stupid mistake by a young kid," he said. "But, when you're a cop, you have a stricter code of conduct. They take that very seriously."

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