Chicago Police Applicant Charged After Confessing to Sexual Assault During Polygraph Exam
Stephone Arnold, 30, his 35-year-old brother, Sherrow Harris, and their now-deceased cousin developed a scheme in which Arnold posed as a robber and “forced” the other two men to rape the women at gunpoint in September 2016, prosecutors say.
Two brothers have been charged with the armed sexual assaults of two women in 2016 after one of the men recently applied to become a Chicago police officer and admitted to the crimes during a lie detector exam. Incredibly, the men are not the only people who’ve allegedly admitted to committing violent crimes during recent police application interviews.
Stephone Arnold, 30, his 35-year-old brother, Sherrow Harris, and their now-deceased cousin developed a scheme in which Arnold posed as a robber and “forced” the other two men to rape the women at gunpoint in September 2016, prosecutors say.
Arnold recently applied to become a Chicago cop and “made admissions” regarding the case during the polygraph exam process, according to prosecutors. Detectives identified the specific cold case based on details Arnold revealed during the polygraph exam, CWBChicago reports.
Prosecutors said both victims identified Harris, Arnold, and their cousin in photo arrays this month.
Judge Luciano Panici, Jr., citing the “depraved nature of this case,” ordered Harris and Arnold jailed pending trial. Both men are charged with two counts of armed kidnapping and four counts of aggravated criminal sexual assault while armed with a firearm.
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