She told one officer over the summer — identifying Cody by name and showing the officer Cody's personal cellphone number saved on her phone, according to the affidavit.

That officer told her how to report it to internal affairs, but didn't take the information to superiors until after Police Chief Jeff Bliemeister sent an internal memo to all officers about the investigation.

A sergeant on the police force also came forward in response to the memo, and said the woman had told him Oct. 16 that there was a rapist in the department but wouldn't say who.

The woman later told investigators about an incident in Cody's police vehicle in the parking lot of the Lincoln Children's Zoo that she says happened the night of Oct. 15.

She said Cody had tried to touch her breasts, grabbed her crotch and squeezed her neck and kissed her, according to the affidavit. When she tried to leave, she said, he pushed her into the "search position" against his SUV and put his hand into her pants and penetrated her.

The first investigation of her allegations started Oct. 17, after police found her lying on a sidewalk, intoxicated, near Holmes Lake Park. She said she had fallen from the backstop at a nearby ball field.