Associated Press
A Miami-Dade County police lieutenant who was also a high-ranking member of a police union has been arrested on rape charges stemming from an alleged incident at a police union gala last month in Palm Beach Gardens.
Jail records show John Jenkins was arrested late Friday on two counts of sexual battery. He was released Saturday.
The Miami Herald says Jenkins resigned last week as executive vice president of the South Florida Police Benevolent Association.
“I’m shocked and extremely disturbed by the charges,” union president Steadman Stahl told the newspaper Saturday.
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