FL – St Pete police officer, sexual activity with minor, Hillsborough County, 19 DEC 2018 *ARREST*

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St. Pete officer arrested for having sex with teen, suspended from job
Updated: Dec 20, 2018 12:30 PM EST
PINELLAS COUNTY, Fla. (WFLA) - A St. Petersburg Police officer is suspended after he was arrested for unlawful activity with a minor, a second-degree felony.

Iraj Karkevandian, 34, turned himself in to the Hillsborough County Jail for an arrest warrant on Wednesday.

Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office said Karkevandian started talking with the girl on the KIK messenger app.

Deputies said he also began calling the victim from on her cell phone, and at times requested to meet her in person. In October or November 2017, they said Karkevandian went to her home and had sexual intercourse with the girl, who was 17 at that time.
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St. Petersburg officer arrested on Hillsborough child sex charge
DEC 20, 2018
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Then, on Wednesday, after he was booked into jail, Assistant Chief Michael Kovacsev suspended him without pay pending the outcome of the case.

Karkevandian was released from jail early Tuesday after meeting $7,500 bail.

St. Pete police officer accused of sexual activity with a minor
Updated: 10:24 AM EST December 20, 2018
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Karkevandian has been a St. Pete police officer since June 2014.

 

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Arrest Inquiry - Search | HCSO

Name: KARKEVANDIAN, IRAJ DANIEL
DOB: 05/10/1984
Booking #: 2018-43869
Arrest Date: 12/19/2018
Race: B
Sex: M
Ethnicity: M

 

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St. Pete Police Officer Accused of Having Sex with a Minor
December 20, 2018
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Hillsborough deputies said that, on an unknown date between 2013-2014, Karkevandian began communicating with the girl by using the KIK messenger mobile application. He also began calling her from his cellular phone to her cellular phone, and at times requested to meet her in person.

On an unknown date in October or November 2017, Karkevandian is accused of traveling to her home where he had sexual intercourse with her. Deputies said she was 17 years old at that time.
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[mgeni]

Following this one. A former acquaintance was arrested for something very similar (also a cop, but the girl was 16). There was text evidence, but unfortunately the victim didn’t want to cooperate in the prosecution. He eventually pleaded guilty to statutory rape (original charge was aggravated statutory rape) and official misconduct. Probation and doesn’t have to register as a SO, which I don’t understand!!

 

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https://hover.hillsclerk.com/html/case/caseSearch.html
Case Number: 18-CF-018484-A
STATE OF FLORIDA VS
KARKEVANDIAN, IRAJ DANIEL

Hearing Description Hearing Date Hearing Time
DISPOSITION 2019-09-18 08:30 AM