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WEBVTT FRIDAY CHUKWUEMEKA EKWONNA'SFATHER APPEARS FOR HIS SON'BAIL REVIEW HEARING, ANYREACTION TO THE CHARGEHE WOULDN'T COMMENT ON CAMERA,BUT IN COURT HE SAID EKWONNA HASALWAYS BEEN A GOOD SON.NOW THAT SON A DC METRO POLICEOFFICER FACES A WIDE RANGE OCHARGES AMONG THEM, ARMEDROBBERY FIRST AND SECOND DEGREEASSAULT AND TWO COUNTS OF THIRDDEGREE SEX OFFENSEWE REACHED OUT TO OTHER FAMILYMEMBERS BY PHONE, BUT DIDN'T GETA COMMENT.THIS ALL BEGAN BACK ON JANUARY9.ACCORDING TO POLICE A15-YEAR-OLD OLD GIRL USED SOCIAL MEDIA CHATTING ANDFLIRTING APP THEN STARTEDTALKING TO EKWONNA.THEY AGREED TO MEET IN GLEBURNIE, IN HIS CAR.POLICE SAY THE GIRL GOT MONEY INRETURN FOR SEX>> HE THEN PRESENTED A HANDGUN.DISPLAYED A HANDGUN.DEMANDED THE MONEY THAT HE PAIDHER FOR HER SERVICES BACHE COMMITTED THAT ROBBERY THENFLED FROM THE SCENE.OMAR SOCIAL SERVICES WAS WORKING: WITH THE GIRL WHEN SHE TOLDTHEM WHAT HAPPENED.BECAUSE OF ITS NATURE.THEYNOTIFIED HOMELAND SECURITY WHOCONTACTED ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTYPOLICE IN MID-MARCH.>> BECAUSE SOCIAL SERVICESBELIEVED THIS WAS A HUMANTRAFFICKING RELATED INCIDENTTHEY NOTIFIED HOMELAND SECURITYHOWEVER WE HAVE NO INDICATIONTHAT ANY HUMAN TRAFFICKING HASOCCURRED HERE.SHE WAS ENGAGED IN THIS ON HEROWN FREE WILL AND WAS NOT BEINGFORCED TO ENGAGE IN THISACTIVITY WHATSOEVEOMAR ON THEIR OFFICER, THE: METROPOLITAN POLICE DEPARTMENTSAIDTHE INTEGRITY OF OUR OFFICERS ISOF THE UTMOST IMPORTANCE TO THEMETROPOLITAN POLICE DEPARTMENTAND EKWONNA'S ACTIONS DO NOTREPRESENT THE VALUES WE SEEK TOUPHOLD.AT THIS TIME HIS POLICE POWERSHAVE BEEN REVOKED AND HE HASBEEN PLACED IN A NON-CONTACTSTATUS.>> IT'S VERY UNFORTUNATE TO HAVEHAPPENED BUT FORTUNATELY HE HASBEEN ARRESTED AND IS OFF THESTREETOMAR: A JUDGE DENIED HIM BONDEARLIER THIS AFTERNOON, CALLINGTHE CHARGES INCREDIBLYDISTURBING.AS FOR THE GIRL, SHE'S NOTFACING ANY CHARGES BECAUSE SHE'SBEING CONSIDERED A VICTIM IN

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A Metropolitan Police Department officer was arrested on charges he engaged in sexual activity with a 15-year-old girl before robbing her earlier this year in Glen Burnie, Anne Arundel County police said.Download the WBAL app. Chukwuemeka Ekwonna, 27, of Glenn Dale, was arrested Thursday at his home in the 7500 block of Lake Glen Drive in Prince George's County. Ekwonna is charged with armed robbery, robbery, first- and second-degree assault, two counts of third-degree sex offense, reckless endangerment, prostitution and related weapons charges, police said.A judge denied bond Friday afternoon calling the charges "incredibly disturbing." Ekwonna appeared in court Friday via video chat.Police said the charges stem from an incident on Jan. 9 when Ekwonna met a 15-year-old girl on the social media app Tagged. The girl agreed to meet him to engage in sexual activity in exchange for money, police said. Once the sexual encounter was over inside his vehicle, Ekwonna produced a gun and demanded his money back, police said. The girl complied and Ekwonna left the vehicle. "We have a situation here where an officer's involved from another jurisdiction who was in a position of trust," Anne Arundel County police spokesman Marc Limansky said.Police were initially notified of the girl March 13 by the Department of Homeland Security over concerns about possible human trafficking. However, police said the victim was acting on her own. Still, she is receiving appropriate support services, police said."Because social services believed this was a human-trafficking-related incident, they notified Homeland Security; however, we have no indication that any human trafficking has occurred here. She was engaged in this on her own free will and was not being forced to engage in this activity whatsoever," Limansky said.Ekwonna has been with the Metropolitan Police Department for 14 months and is assigned to the Second District. His police powers have been revoked and he has been placed in a non-contact status."It's very unfortunate to have happened, but fortunately, he has been arrested and is off the streets," Limansky said.The incident is being investigated by the Anne Arundel County Police Department and the Metropolitan Police Department Internal Affairs Division.WBAL-TV 11 News reached out to Ekwonna's family by phone but did not receive a comment. Ekwonna's father, who attended the court proceedings, declined to comment. In court, he said Ekwonna has always been a good son.Also on WBALTV.com: