Yet another Oklahoma law enforcement officer is accused of a sex crime. This time, the accused man is an Oklahoma County sheriff's deputy--or rather, he was until the agency learned of his arrest by Oklahoma City police and fired him.

Oklahoma City police report that a woman came into the police station Saturday morning and reported that an off-duty Oklahoma County deputy had raped her at her apartment Thursday night.

According to the woman, she and former deputy Euitt A. Sharp III, 30, had known each other for more than a year and had previously been involved in a consensual relationship. She told police that she and Sharp were no longer intimate, having agreed to remain "just friends." However, on Thursday night, the woman reports, Sharp came over to her apartment to talk, but eventually forced himself on her and raped her, despite her telling him no and trying to push her off.

The woman says that after the encounter, she told Sharp, "You just raped me." He reportedly replied, "What are you going to do? Call County?" before leaving the woman's apartment. 

Two days later, she walked into an Oklahoma City police station to file a rape report.

Oklahoma City police questioned Sharp that day and determined that there was sufficient evidence to arrest him on a first degree rape complaint. They say that Sharp admitted to the sexual assault as they questioned him, and he was arrested while on duty at the

Oklahoma County Sheriff's Office substation at Quail Springs Mall. He was booked into jail and released on $25,000 bond.

Sharp worked as a detention officer at the Oklahoma County Jail in 2014 before becoming a deputy sheriff within a few months of his hire by the Sheriff's Office. Until he was fired, he worked as a School Resource Officer at Elizabeth Ann Seton Catholic School in Edmond.

Sheriff John Whetsel said of his deputy's arrest, "We placed a lot of faith and trust in him when we sent him to the academy and when he pinned the badge on. And he let not only me down but he let every member of this agency down and every member of law enforcement. . . . An act of violence against anyone is not acceptable, and . . . we won't tolerate it."

If ultimately charged and convicted of first degree rape, the former deputy faces 5 years to life in prison and lifetime sex offender registration.

Image credit: Oklahoma County Sheriff's Office