Fort Myers cop quits, accused of having sex on job

The Fort Myers Police Department is continuing an internal affairs investigation into a recently resigned officer who is accused of having sex multiple times while on duty, including once in his marked patrol car.

Oscar Basora Jr. submitted his resignation for “personal reasons” Aug. 27, effective Sept. 2. He had joined the department May 25, 2006, and had been a SWAT member and sniper, honor guard member, firearms instructor, community policing coordinator, general instructor and field training officer.

More than a dozen-and-a-half Fort Myers police officers and detectives and a handful of citizens, including the woman with whom he was allegedly having the sexual relationship, were questioned in an internal investigation.

A complaint was made by that woman to police earlier in the year, sparking the internal investigation.

A spokesman for the department declined to comment aside from confirming the active investigation.

In Basora’s own statement, taken Aug. 17, he said he had “a very sexual relationship” with the woman, but emphatically denied he had ever had sex with her while on duty. Basora said he often took the woman meals and fed her “for a very long time” because she was unemployed.

But the woman provided investigators with information in the form of iPhone texts, photos and videos of the alleged sexual encounters, many with date and time stamps that indicated Basora’s activities were done while he was supposed to be on duty.

The texts were specific to various activities between the two, with many sexually explicit comments allegedly made by Basora.

Basora told investigators that the woman’s phone had been altered and loaded with an application to allow “spoofing” or altering of information, and he could not confirm the texts as having originated with him. He also refused to provide his own personal cell phone, citing the personal aspects of the records and that no related police work was involved.

Police investigators took the woman’s iPhone to a local Apple outlet where it was confirmed that the phone had not been altered or loaded with an application that could “spoof” or falsely produce texts.

An investigating officer during the interview with Basora on Aug. 17 said “there’s a large amount of data that came out of the phone. ... It’s thousands and thousands of pages.”

Basora also was alleged to have left rookie officers he was training alone several times while he was with the woman, a point he denied in his statement, saying he had been given permission to do that. Officers denied giving him permission.

Residents in and around where the woman lived recalled seeing a Fort Myers police cruiser parked there multiple times, sometimes running and sometimes off and sometimes with an officer inside and sometimes not.

The complainant also said that she and Basora once had sex in the cruiser, with the officer standing outside and the woman on the front seat.

Basora also told investigators that he had tried to distance himself from the woman after he got married in September 2014 but that the sexual relationship with her that had started in 2012 did not end until early in 2015.

Basora could not be reached for comment Tuesday.

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