Regular Michael Jackson Possibly Still Creepier

A New Jersey police officer wasn’t getting any, so he decided to do the next best thing: Hire a prostitute.

Okay, he didn’t so much “hire her” as “make his own one-man prostitution sting, arrest a woman and then illegally conduct his own strip search.” The Camden Courier-Post explains:

Authorities arrested James Michael Jackson, a police officer with the state Department of Human Services, and charged him with sexual assault and sexual misconduct for the so-called sting.

According to authorities, Jackson, 34, of Toms River, arranged through a service for a woman to meet him Wednesday at a local hotel in Manchester.

When she arrived, Jackson, carrying a badge and gun, told her she was under arrest. He made her take off her clothes and consent to a body cavity search before letting her go, Ocean County Assistant Prosecutor Martin Anton said.

The prosecutor said Jackson overstepped his bounds as a law enforcement official when he placed the female prostitute under arrest and performed a strip search.

Gee, you think, Mr. Prosecutor?

Officer arrested for illegal strip search [Camden Courier-Post]