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Samantha Thomason (Screenshot from WXYZ video)
A Detroit police officer faces criminal charges for allegedly stealing intimate photos and videos from a woman's phone while she was in custody, WXYZ reports.
Officer Derond Crawford, who has been suspended, is charged with one count each of using a computer to commit a crime, common-law offenses, and interfering with electronic communications in connection with the incident.
Prosecutors allege Crawford sent the photos to himself while the woman was detained at the Detroit Detention Center this past week.
Samantha Thomason tells WXYZ that the incident began late Tuesday night when she first saw the officer at a gas station on the city's east side. She was later pulled over at Harper and Morang Avenue for driving without insurance and arrested on a probation violation warrant out of Canton.
She tells the station she suspected something was wrong after the officer got hold of her phone during the stop. She later saw that he texted the images from her phone to his.
"When you initially first seen even the text just sent to the number, it was a sexual video off of my phone. So I already knew that was weird because I didn't have access to my phone at this time. The only people who had my phone were the two officers who arrested me," Thomason tells WXYZ.
