An Oklahoma City police officer and former NFL hopeful has been charged with multiple felony counts, including rape and other sex crimes for crimes allegedly committed while the officer was on patrol.

Daniel Ken Holtzclaw, 27, was part of the Oklahoma City Police Department's Springlake Patrol Division, which covers portions of northeast and northwest Oklahoma City, including the Adventure District near the zoo and Remington Park, and the state Capitol complex. Prosecutors say Holtzclaw, who worked the 4:00 p.m. to 2:00 a.m. shift, would detain women in traffic stops or as they walked through neighborhoods and sexually assault them.

Investigators say that the officer would threaten the women with arrest if they did not comply with his sexual demands. In some cases, they say, he would require the women to expose themselves. In others, he would fondle them or force them to perform sex acts. At least one woman accused Holtzclaw of raping her.

Holtzclaw came under investigation after a woman reported in June that he had sexually assaulted her during a traffic stop. He was suspended in mid-June and arrested on August 21. He was booked into the Oklahoma County Jail on multiple sex crime complaints as well as a stalking and burglary complaint.

The stalking and burglary complaints are related to an incident in March in which Holtzclaw is alleged to have entered a man's home without a warrant in order to look for the man's girlfriend.

In addition to the stalking and burglary charges, the police officer is charged with 14 other felony counts:

  • 2 counts of first degree rape
  • 4 counts of forcible sodomy
  • 4 counts of sexual battery
  • 4 counts of indecent exposure

At least six women have accused Holtzclaw of sexually assaulting them, but investigators suspect there may be more victims.

The former police officer is currently held on $5 million bond, but his attorney has filed a motion for a bond reduction in an attempt to significantly lower his bond to $139,000.

Holtzclaw is not the only Oklahoma law enforcement officer currently accused of raping someone while on duty. In August, Oklahoma Highway Patrol Trooper Eric Roberts was named in a lawsuit by a woman accusing him of raping her during a traffic stop. Roberts is suspended during an investigation, but has not been charged. A little more than a week after the lawsuit was filed, a second woman came forward and was added to the lawsuit as a plaintiff. Roberts's attorney says his client is not guilty and points to the initial accuser's history of filing a false rape report.