COPping A Feel

Local mom calls 911 on detective: 'The guy just dropped his pants'

By Ian Forrest/KPTV.com

An Oregon State Police detective has been caught having sex with a prostitute while he was on duty, according to police.

A 911 call on Tuesday at 2:30 p.m. reported a man and woman engaging in a sex act in the bushes off Southeast Johnson Creek Boulevard near 77th Court.

The woman who called 911 told Fox 12 she was at home with her daycare kids when she saw a man and woman walk into the empty lot across the street. That's when her 16-year-old son said, "Mom, the guy just dropped his pants."

"And I'm like, what? No," said Jennifer Stone.

Clackamas County deputies responded and made contact with the two suspects while they were still in the bushes.

Police said Detective Richard Narvaez met the woman in a nearby parking lot.

Narvaez, who is assigned as a detective to the Tribal Gaming Section in Salem, was on duty at the time but not in uniform. He was cited on a charge of patronizing a prostitute and public indecency, and has since been put on unpaid suspension leave pending the investigation.

Police said 32-year-old Tiffany Smith, of Portland, was arrested on charges of outstanding probation violation warrants, public indecency and prostitution.

Stone said she's just glad the neighborhood children didn't see what happened.

"I think it's disgusting," she said. "I think it's stupid. Being in that profession, why would you screw up like this?"

I didn’t even think cops got in trouble for stuff like this. I guess I’ve seen it so many times on movies and TV that it just seemed like it was overlooked when it happened. Of course when TV and movie cops hump they generally wait until night, not 2:30 p.m. on a walking trail.

But what is a cop supposed to do when some vivacious hooker offers him a discount plow in the middle of the afternoon? He’s just got to channel his inner McNulty and hope for the best. Prudes like Jennifer Stone be damned.