PAW PAW, MI -- A woman who was allegedly raped by a police officer said much of which she recalled from that night was "blurry," but that at one point she woke up and "he was on top of me."

The woman testified Tuesday at a preliminary examination for former Covert Township police officer Erich Fritz. The hearing in Van Buren County District Court will be continued later this month.

The woman, who lived in Niles at the time of the July 9 incident, testified she met a high school friend in South Haven for drinks. She said she doesn't recall leaving the bar, but was told later she left with an acquaintance of her friend who said he would drive her because she wasn't in a condition to drive.

Fritz pulled the man over in Covert Township and arrested him for operating while intoxicated.

The woman testified that Fritz took her to three different hotels that night to find her a room. The first didn't have any vacancies, so he dropped her off at a second hotel. When she went to check in, however, she didn't have her debit card and identification with her.

Tammy Green, a night clerk at the Baymont Inn and Suites in South Haven, the second of the hotels, said the woman was "too intoxicated" to ask for a room, and emptied her purse on the counter to look for her card and ID. Green said her niece, who was visiting her at work, offered to drive the woman home to Niles using Green's car. She said she called Fritz to tell him the woman didn't have the necessary documentation to rent a room, and he replied that it was in his car and he would come back.

Green's niece testified she saw the woman get in Fritz's car voluntarily.

The two went to a third hotel, this one in Paw Paw. The woman testified that Fritz told her he had a wife and a child and lived elsewhere, and that he kept a hotel room in town.

Fritz had not yet transported the driver he had arrested to jail when they went to the third hotel, according to testimony by Det. Sgt. Shane Criger of the Michigan State Police testified at a probable cause hearing in July, and took the man to jail after dropping the woman off at his hotel room.

The woman testified she didn't recall Fritz coming back to the hotel and that she was "dumbfounded" when she awoke to him having sex with her. She said she doesn't think she had any conversations with Fritz about wanting to have sex with him and doesn't think she consented to it.

The woman said she went to a hospital the next day and had a sexual assault kit done at the urging of her ex-boyfriend, who she contacted to pick her up the next day. She said Fritz did not offer to give her a ride.

The woman said she has been seeing a counselor and that dealing with the incident has been hard on her "just trying to go from day to day."

"I felt really bad," she testified. "I wondered if he had done this before."

Fritz is charged with two counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct and one count of kidnapping. All three charges carry up to life in prison.

Fritz, who had been on the Covert Township Police Department force for two months at the time of the incident, has since resigned.

The preliminary examination is scheduled to continue Friday, Sept. 23 in front of Van Buren County District Court Judge Robert Hentchel.