A former Ann Arbor police officer resigned over the summer amid allegations that he offered young women leniency in exchange for sex, records obtained by The Ann Arbor News show.

Jason J. Kitts, 39, was a patrol officer in June when three complaints were filed with the Ann Arbor Police Department by at least two women, records show.

Ann Arbor Police Chief John Seto said in an email that Kitts resigned on July 16, 2014, while both the department and the Michigan State Police investigated claims against him.

Seto did not address the state police investigation or details of the internal investigation. He instead issued a general comment.

"The Ann Arbor Police Department has a high standard for its officers," Seto said. "The actions of Kitts are unacceptable, (which) is why he is no longer a member of the AAPD."

The News used the Freedom of Information Act to request all personnel complaints made against Kitts in 2013 and 2014. There were none in 2013. On June 12, 2014, a citizen filed a complaint via email about a traffic stop that occurred on Plymouth Road June 2.

In the complaint, the woman said Kitts made "(i)nappropriate remarks made during a traffic stop (that) were interpreted to be sexual in nature," though the complaint did not elaborate further.

However, two other complaints made that same month went into much greater detail.

On June 16, Kitts allegedly pulled over a young woman and hinted that he'd get the ticket dismissed if she had sex with him, the records indicate.

The complaint says the young woman is a student, but doesn't specify which school she attends. One of the woman's instructors reported the incident to Ann Arbor police about an hour after the traffic stop because the woman "was too traumatized to come into the station," the report said.

The instructor told police her student was pulled over for speeding around 1:15 p.m. June 16 on Plymouth Road in Ann Arbor.

When the woman told the officer that she needed to get her speedometer looked at because she was afraid it was faulty, Kitts said, "Well, what does that do for me?" according to the report.

Kitts told the woman she could potentially get her license taken away due to the speeding ticket and the points she had already accrued, the complaint says.

The woman asked what her options were.

"What can a girl do for a guy?" Kitts asked, according to the report.

The woman seems to have initially misunderstood the sexual innuendo. She told the officer "she could bake or do translation paperwork," according to the complaint.

Kitts then told the woman to "think harder about what a girl could do for a guy," according to the report.

"She said, 'Sex,' but that's illegal," the report says. "(Kitts) told her not to worry about what was illegal."

Kitts then asked her if she had a boyfriend, according to the report. After she said she didn't, Kitts then reportedly asked her "what a good time would be to come over and see what they could do to take care of her ticket."

The complaint isn't clear on exactly how the woman said the encounter ended. It states that Kitts asked for and received the woman's address. The complaint says the woman "thought (Kitts) would return with paperwork to dismiss the ticket but after speaking with her teacher she realized that wasn't how a ticket would be taken care of in the law enforcement system."

A second woman called the Ann Arbor Police Department on June 23 to lodge a complaint against Kitts for an incident that occurred earlier in the month at the 15th District Court.

The woman told police she was stopped for speeding by Kitts around 9 p.m. May 19 on South State Street in Ann Arbor. Nothing inappropriate happened during the traffic stop, she said in her complaint, but the officer did encourage her to take the ticket to court.

"She wanted to specifically complain about his behavior during a conversation they had outside the courtroom in the hallways," the report says.

On June 4, the woman went to her hearing at the 15th District Court, where she encountered Kitts, she told police.

"(Kitts) then asked her to step into a private room outside the courtroom," the report says. "(The woman) said she found that unusual and felt like (Kitts) didn't want anyone else to hear the conversation."

Kitts allegedly told the woman that he could get the ticket dismissed, but wanted to know "what was in it for him," according to the report.

In her complaint, the woman said Kitts told her, "I want to see how well you can convince me that I should do this."

The woman seems to have thought he meant he wanted her to bribe him with money, according to an AAPD report on the complaint. When an Ann Arbor police sergeant who took the complaint asked the woman why it took so long for her to report the inappropriate behavior, she said her mother had convinced her the officer's behavior was unethical and told her to report it.

Michigan State Police First Lt. Sean Furlong confirmed last week Kitts was the subject of an investigation and that criminal charges have been submitted to the Washtenaw County Prosecutor's Office for authorization. Officials with the prosecutor's office declined to comment on the case.

Seto would not say if the incidents detailed in the complaints are the focus of the MSP investigation, but the chief did confirm Kitts was investigated for criminal behavior.

"I requested the Michigan State Police conduct an investigation as soon as the AAPD Professional Standards investigation revealed some alleged actions could be criminal in nature," he said in a statement.

Kitts had been with the Ann Arbor Police Department for eight years before resigning. City records show he made $76,861.91 in fiscal year 2013-14.

John Counts covers crime and breaking news for The Ann Arbor News. He can be reached at johncounts@mlive.com or you can follow him on Twitter. Find all Washtenaw County crime stories here.