PAW PAW (WKZO-AM) — A former Covert Township Police officer has been bound over to stand trial for kidnapping and Criminal Sexual Conduct in a case where the victim really doesn’t remember what happened.
She was the intoxicated passenger in a car that Officer Erich Fritz stopped because the driver was also allegedly drunk.
Fritz took her to a Paw Paw motel and then took the driver to the County Jail for processing. After work, he went to the motel to check on her and they had was he claims was consensual sex.
She claims it wasn’t but really doesn’t remember.
The prosecutor claims it couldn’t have been consensual if she was in no shape to consent.
The Judge has decided to let a jury sort it out.
Fritz is charged with two counts of first degree criminal sexual conduct and a count of kidnapping. Conviction on any one of those charges could mean up to life in prison.
