Prosecutors said Pullen scoured online advertisements to find the escorts and posed as a customer to lure them to meetings. The escorts said that when Pullen revealed himself as an officer, he stole their money and either groped them against their will or forced them to have sex under threat of arrest.

D.S., a mother of four, has said Pullen coerced her into going to the station in July 2009 and forced oral sex upon her while she sat on a bullet-resistant vest, ignoring her yells in protest. In her statement, she said Pullen felt he "was bigger than life ... unstoppable." She said the experience left her with two questions: "How and why? Why did the city let it go on?"

A second victim said in court that Pullen wanted to plan "Uplands Park parties" charging $80 apiece. "This was the deal," she said, without elaborating further.

The Police Department placed Pullen on unpaid leave after his arrest by the FBI in September 2009.

Pullen pleaded guilty in July to nine felony charges, including conspiracy, deprivation of civil rights, witness tampering and lying to the FBI. Ten other charges were dropped in exchange for his guilty plea.