A Florida sheriff’s deputy has resigned after an investigation was launched into his inappropriate conduct on-duty with two teenage ladies, per disciplinary paperwork.
Marion County Sheriff’s Deputy Dylan Fruh allegedly took down one underage woman’s quantity throughout a visitors cease. He then adopted her to an space quick meals eatery, and on one other event used division sources to obtain the variety of and textual content a unique teen woman, per paperwork procured by FOX 35 Orlando.
Main as much as his resignation Oct. 16, Fruh, 21, was reportedly discovered to be in violation of dereliction of responsibility, not activating his body-worn digicam and utilizing an data database for non-work-related searches.
Fruh was reprimanded and placed on one-to-three day suspensions after every incident and resigned after the second suspension, per the Marion County Sheriff’s Division paperwork.
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Deputy Dylan Fruh of the Marion County, Fla., Sheriff’s Workplace resigned Oct. 16. (Marion County Sheriff’s Division )
On Aug. 18, Fruh reportedly pulled over a 17-year-old woman driving on Northeast Jacksonville Highway round 10 p.m. After taking the woman’s driver’s license and figuring out that her father owned the car, Fruh allegedly requested the woman the place she was going, per a criticism lodged in September by her dad and mom.
The woman stated that she had simply left a highschool soccer recreation, and was on her method to meet a good friend at McDonald’s.
After going to his patrol automobile for a couple of minute, Fruh returned and requested for the woman’s cellphone quantity. The woman requested him to make clear whether or not he needed her or her father’s quantity. Fruh stated he needed her quantity, and he or she gave it to him.
The woman advised deputies in a later investigation that she gave Fruh her quantity as a result of “he is a cop.”
“If a cop asks me to do one thing, then I’ll do it,” the woman reportedly advised investigators with the division, noting that it was her first time being pulled over.
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It’s unclear what instigated the visitors cease. In later interviews, Fruh stated he took down the woman’s quantity for a written warning that he was going to situation her — he by no means did situation a written warning.
“I consider I used to be going to doc [her phone number], however then I did a verbal warning,” Fruh advised investigators. “[I didn’t plan to] hit her up afterward.”
Fruh reportedly gave the woman a warning, then requested if he might accompany her to “get a nugget” on the quick meals chain. It’s unclear how the woman responded.
The woman then met up along with her good friend at McDonald’s and the 2 went by means of the drive-thru. They parked within the restaurant’s lot to eat within the automobile — and observed as a patrol automobile parked three areas away from them.
Then, per the disciplinary paperwork, the woman acquired a textual content from an unknown quantity:
“Ain’t no manner they forgot my mf ranch,” Fruh allegedly wrote in a textual content to the woman. When she texted again asking who she was talking with, the cop responded “It is Fruh.”
He then referred to as her, per the doc. In later interviews, Fruh stated that he was going to ask the woman whether or not she or her good friend had any ranch they might spare.
The cop stated that he despatched the textual content message as a result of he “thought it will be humorous,” admitting that it was “unprofessional,” however his actions amounted to neighborhood policing.
“He defined he needed to point out that cops aren’t unhealthy and are prepared to exit and do one thing with the neighborhood,” the report learn.
Within the time interval of the visitors cease, the report learn, Fruh allegedly searched “born in 2006” — the yr that the woman was born as printed on her license — on a search engine. He advised investigators he did so as a result of he was “curious,” and stated he did not know why he was curious.
In an earlier incident in June, additionally reported by the sufferer’s dad and mom in September, a teen woman allegedly answered when Fruh knocked on her household’s door amid a police seek for residents who have been presumably caught in a swampy space, per the paperwork.
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Fruh requested the woman if she had seen or heard just a few boys yelling for assist, per the paperwork. The woman stated she did not see something — Fruh advised her to name the “precinct” if she did.
“I did not have any data for him and did not know what he was speaking about,” the woman advised deputies in an interview after her household reported the Sept. 19 incident.
Fruh didn’t go to every other homes in his investigation, and advised investigators later that he went to her home as a result of he “thought she was cute,” per the paperwork. He by no means activated his body-worn digicam.
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A few hours later, she obtained a textual content from an unknown quantity:
“You let me know in the event you see them,” learn the message, which the woman quickly realized was from the officer she met earlier.
When she requested how Fruh acquired her cellphone quantity, he replied “woman, we acquired sources.”
The woman, whose age wasn’t specified within the report, stated that the scenario made her really feel “uncomfortable.” She advised her dad and mom quickly after, she stated, who advised her to not proceed corresponding as a result of the officer might be a “weirdo.”
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