Three Cops Busted Having Sex With Opioid Thief In City Hall—Not Arrested, Not Even Fired

By Jack Burns

Three police officers were suspended without pay after their  department learned that they were having sex while on city  property—serving as a reminder that if the average citizens were caught  having sex in city hall, they would have been arrested for lewd behavior while in public.  

But because police have one standard for themselves and another for the  general public, the officers were given only a few days off without  pay. Investigators in Billings, Montana, were not looking to find their  officers engaged in sex on city property, but while investigating the  theft of drugs from the department’s evidence storage facility by a  former employee, Rawlyn Strizich, the sex acts were discovered, presumably by video camera footage. 

The three male officers were seen  having sex with Strizich who was fired in February for stealing  oxycodone from the evidence storage facility. All three of the veteran male officers admitted to having sex with  Strizich. Police chief Rich St. John confirmed with KTVQ the suspensions  did, in fact, take place. According to KTVQ: 

St. John said two of the officers were suspended for two  weeks without pay because they had sex with Strizich while on duty and  on city property — in the basement of City Hall, which is used for  records storage. The third officer was suspended without pay for one  week because he was off duty but on city property at the time. St. John  said that officer had sexual relations with Strizich in a police patrol  car.

“We’re talking really good officers who made a bad decision — a really, really bad decision,” St.  John said. The entire incident has critics scratching their heads and  wondering if they too had been caught at city hall having sex, would  they have gotten a citation and a court date or such a generous pass  like St. John gave the three male officers? 

Apparently, the fact that the Billings PD is short-handed was enough  of a reason to keep the men on the police force. Surprisingly, the  police chief does not even know if they have actually served their  suspensions or not, leaving some to wonder if they were even suspended  at all. 

St. John said, he gave the commanders who supervise the  officers discretion on when to allow the suspensions to be served, but  the suspensions have to be served all at once, not one or two days at a  time. St. John said he ordered the suspensions three weeks ago, adding,  “I don’t know if they served their time yet.”

If the media had not been alerted to the incident, it is unclear if  anything would have been done to the officers who still remain  unidentified. Several news agencies know their identities but refuse to  report their names. 

“I look at the work that they have done, whether they’re salvageable, the time that’s elapsed with this thing,” St. John told the Billings Gazette. “We  have a lot of money invested in these people, and if they’re  salvageable, we want to do that. I also want them to learn that this  isn’t acceptable behavior and send a message to the rest of the  department that this is unacceptable.” 

This week KTVQ reported  that the City of Billings is planning to release the names of the three  officers. The resulting shame will certainly rock the lives of the  officers, their families, and the community. Sadly, this story is not the first story published by The Free Thought Project detailing sexual, possibly criminal, actions by officers  while on duty. 

Most often, the officers are suspended, with or without  pay, and allowed to remain on the police force despite being guilty of  the very thing for which the average citizen would be arrested. 

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