PAW PAW, MI -- A former Covert Township police officer accused of sexually assaulting a drunk woman was arraigned Friday.

Erich Fritz appeared via video for his arraignment in Van Buren County District Court before Judge Robert Hentchel.

Fritz is facing two counts of criminal sexual conduct in the first degree and one count of kidnapping in the July 9 incident. Police say he pulled over a drunk driver and allegedly took the driver's passenger back to his hotel room, later returning after his shift and sexually assaulting her.

All three charges carry with them the possibility of life in prison.

Fritz, who had been on the police force for two months at the time of the allegations, has since resigned.

Det. Sgt. Shane Criger of the Michigan State Police said at a probable cause hearing Thursday that on July 9, the woman was riding in a car with a man she met at the bar that night. Fritz pulled the man over and arrested him for drunk driving. The victim told state police "she was extremely intoxicated and could not find a place to stay that night." The woman said Fritz took the woman to his hotel in Paw Paw while on duty and in uniform, and told her to take a shower.

Fritz left to take the driver to jail, and the woman took a shower and passed out on the bed, the detective said Thursday. The woman woke up to Fritz having sex with her without her consent.

"(The victim) advised me the entire time she felt trapped and scared," Creiger said.

The woman showed Creiger two bruises on each of her upper arms that occurred sometime during the evening, but she said she was intoxicated and couldn't remember how she got them.

Fritz told state police he dropped the victim off at his hotel room while in uniform and on duty, then took the driver to jail. Fritz said when he returned to the hotel room, the victim initiated the sexual contact and they had consexual sex.

Creiger said footage from Fritz's patrol vehicle shows the woman was "highly intoxicated," and Fritz mentioned several times during the stop how intoxicated she was. At one point, the woman fell into Fritz as she was trying to get out of the car in which she was riding.

The woman later told police she has had to see a counselor, has developed a stress related ulcer, hasn't been able to sleep and has been crying frequently since the incident, Creiger said.

Bond for Fritz was set at $100,000.

Fritz's attorney Scott Grabel said at his client has fully cooperated and his client offered to take a police polygraph test about the charges.

Fritz turned himself in at 7 a.m. Friday morning, his lawyer said. His wife was present in the courtroom during his arraignment.

Fritz "has a substantially different version of what transpired in this case," Grabel said. He said everything Fritz did was "100 percent consensual."

He said Fritz has no history of substance abuse and is not a flight risk.

Van Buren County Prosecutor Michael Bedford said the woman was so incapacitated in Fritz' police car she didn't know where she was, had wet herself and told him "at least 25 times how scared she is, how she doesn't know where she is, how afraid she is," Bedford said.

"He acknowledged numerous times on the video how drunk she was," Bedford said, noting the woman wanted to walk from the traffic stop but Fritz wouldn't let her.

Bedford said the victim had a credit card and her ID and Fritz dropped her off at a hotel, but he kept her phone, credit card and driver's license. He then went back to the hotel and picked her up and took her to his hotel room, Bedford said.

She vomited and passed out on the couch, Bedford said. When Fritz returned, the woman was passed out on the hotel bed. She woke up to him having sex with her, Bedford said.

"I think this is someone who poses a great threat to public safety, is a danger to the public, especially using his position of authority to put her in his hotel room," Bedford said. "There were so many other options" including giving her credit card and ID to a hotel clerk to get her a room, or taking her to a hospital given her high level of intoxication.

Grabel asked the judge for a personal recognizance bond, but the judged denied that, setting bond at $30,000.

Fritz is due back in court for a preliminary exam Aug. 9.