Cop Investigated in Fake Arrest of Teen Daughter's Boyfriend

Sept. 25, 2010— -- A California motorcycle cop crossed the line when he staged a fake arrest of his 14-year-old daughter's 15-year-old boyfriend after learning the two had sex, the boy's parents said.

The San Jose Police Department may agree. Its internal affairs division is investigating the incident, which the boy's parents captured on cell phone video, a police department spokesman said.

The incident occurred on Aug. 30, according to ABC San Francisco station KGO-TV, whose media partner The San Jose Mercury News obtained the video.

The officer had just found out that his daughter had sex with her boyfriend, who she had been dating since middle school, according to the newspaper.

The boy's parents said the officer showed up at their house in his uniform, riding his police department motorcycle, told the boy he was going to arrest him for sexual assault and put him in handcuffs.

"It does not bode well for you. Do you know what that means? No? Not a good thing that the person you had sex with is a cop's daughter. The district attorney will probably file charges," the cop is heard saying in the video.

The family's attorney said even if the officer was trying to use "scared straight" tactics, he went too far.

"He made comments like, 'You don't mess with a cop's daughter.' That's a show of authority, that's inappropriate," attorney Tony Boskovich told KGO. "Applying force, applying handcuffs, threatening the young man with things such as rape in prison.

"He acted like a cowboy. He lost it, he came in and he abused his authority," Boskovich said.

But the officer's attorney said the boy's family knew what the officer was doing and did not object.

"The officer was essentially invited to use 'scare straight' tactics, and there were no objections to the lecture or the handcuffing," lawyer Terry Bowman said. "Everything was done in the spirit of reaching a troubled young man who is heading down the wrong path."