“San Diego Cop Accidentally Locks Himself in Cruiser with Woman Who Wanted Sex”

A San Diego police offi­cer found him­self in a com­pro­mis­ing sit­u­a­tion after acci­den­tal­ly lock­ing him­self in the back of his patrol car with a woman who had propo­si­tioned him for sex.

Offi­cer Antho­ny Hair was trans­port­ing a female sus­pect, who was want­ed for steal­ing a car, to the police sta­tion when the inci­dent occurred. Accord­ing to new­ly-released body­cam footage, the woman began propo­si­tion­ing Hair for sex dur­ing the dri­ve, telling him she was “down to f*** right now.”

As they con­tin­ued towards the deten­tion cen­ter, Hair start­ed dri­ving down a res­i­den­tial street and turned off his body cam­era. About 20 min­utes lat­er, he radioed a fel­low offi­cer, admit­ting that he had locked him­self in the back of the police car and ask­ing if the offi­cer had a mas­ter key to open it.

Hair denied any wrong­do­ing, repeat­ed­ly claim­ing that he was sim­ply “check­ing” on the sus­pect when the door acci­den­tal­ly locked on him and that the cam­era turned off because he had knocked it off its clip. How­ev­er, the inves­ti­ga­tion found traces of semen on Hair’s belt, and he was asked to re-enact the inci­dent as part of the probe.

Ulti­mate­ly, Hair resigned from the San Diego Police Depart­ment about a month after the inves­ti­ga­tion began and a day before he was sched­uled to be inter­viewed by inter­nal affairs. It remains unclear whether he faced any crim­i­nal charges.

The inci­dent serves as a cau­tion­ary tale about the dan­gers of unpro­fes­sion­al con­duct, even unin­ten­tion­al, with­in the law enforce­ment com­mu­ni­ty. As the pub­lic’s trust in police con­tin­ues to be test­ed, this case high­lights the impor­tance of main­tain­ing the high­est stan­dards of ethics and accountability.

While the details of the encounter are undoubt­ed­ly embar­rass­ing, the broad­er impli­ca­tions under­score the need for rig­or­ous train­ing, clear poli­cies, and robust over­sight to pre­vent such inci­dents from occur­ring and erod­ing pub­lic con­fi­dence in the jus­tice system.