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How Bad Could Jail Be?

Charles Oliver | 1.10.2014 6:00 AM

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Former Country Club Hills, Missouri, police officer Timothy Jones has been sentenced to one year in county jail for coercing a woman into having sex with him. He pulled the woman over and told her he would arrest her for DUI if she did not have sex with him.

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