Former Denver Police officer Hector Paez has been sentenced to eight years in prison for sexual assault and kidnapping, the Denver District Attorney’s Office announced Friday.

Paez was sentenced to eight years in prison for the kidnapping, followed by 10 years to life of sexual-offender probation.

Paez, now 33, was in uniform May 16, 2010, when he came in contact with the victim, a 36-year-old woman, and ran a background check on her, finding an outstanding arrest warrant out of Jefferson County.

Paez then took the woman to an isolated area and coerced her into “performing a sexual act to avoid being taken to jail,” the DA’s office said when charges were filed.

Paez claimed that he took the woman to the secluded location in order to question her as part of an investigation.

During the sentencing hearing, the judge set Paez’s bond at $100,000 bond during an appeal.

In response, the Denver District Attorney Tweeted, “WOW, Judge in Paez case grants him a bond while he appeals his conviction.”