SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., Nov. 25 (UPI) -- The city of Scottsdale agreed to pay $350,000 to a woman who contended she was illegally strip searched by a police officer who responded to a call at her home.
The officer, who resigned last year after confessing to internal affairs detectives, is currently being investigated by the U.S. Department of Justice, the Arizona Republic reported.
The 19-year-old woman told police that Officer Chong Kim responded to her apartment after she had called police. She said Kim asked if she could search the premises and then asked her to lift her dress and pull down her bra and panties.
She told investigators she did not protest because she had been drinking and feared she might be arrested.
The Republic said Kim told the internal-affairs investigators he had made the same request to 15-20 other women during his time on the police force.
