TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WTXL) - More details are being revealed on what lead to the firing of a Leon County Sheriff's Office deputy for aggravated assault.
Former Deputy Jarrett Broughton was arrested over the weekend for aggravated assault.
According to court documents, a woman came forward on March 1 to file a formal citizen complaint about a deputy forcing her to show him her breasts back in September 2017.
The woman said that she had signed up to go on a ride-along and was originally supposed be paired with another deputy. However, Broughton volunteered to take her instead.
Documents say the two went to a call for service at a tow company before going to a scrap metal place on Aenon Church Road.
After that, the pair drove the Apalachicola National Forest. The woman told investigations nothing happened until they returned to Aenon Church Road so Broughton could eat his dinner.
She said he asked her if she wanted to play 'Truth or Dare' after sitting there for a while and she agreed, thinking it'd be harmless. While playing, the victim asked if Broughton had ever used his badge to intimate someone and he answered that he had not.
The deputy then dared the victim to "pull up her shirt and show him her breasts," a request the woman denied. She says the deputy moved on from that question to other questions and took her to the Lake Talquin State Forrest.
While there, the woman said he showed her his "big gun" and baton, allowing her to hold both. She noted Broughton told her she was not allowed to hold these items, but let her anyway.
Before leaving, the complaint document says Broughton told her not to tell anyone about what happened. While driving down Highway 20, the victim says Broughton again asked her to expose her breasts. She again told him no.
That's when the deputy asked her if she had a boyfriend and what types of "sexual things" she's done. The woman said she tried to steer the conversation away from those topics because the questions were inappropriate.
Around 9 p.m., they received a call for service at a home and were on scene for 15 to 20 minutes.
According to complaint documents, the deputy took the woman back into the National Forrest after leaving the location, saying that he needed to do deeper rounds.
The woman told investigators that Broughton took her to an area where both sides of the road were clear cut of trees. She noticed that he took his baton with him when he got out of the car, telling investigators that he hadn't taken it with him on any of the other calls.
Documents say he turned off all the lights on his patrol vehicle and told the woman they were going to walk down the road to see if anyone was on the trail.
While walking, the woman says Broughton again asked her to expose her breasts, which she refused several times. After a pause, the woman claims the deputy got closer, bringing his baton up to his shoulder asking her with, "a smirk on his face," to expose herself.
That's when the woman said she got scared, and gave into the deputy's request. When investigators asked why she was scared, the woman said that the deputy could have assaulted her and left her in the woods or got her in trouble if she fought back.
The woman said the deputy asked if he could touch her and she said no. After, she told investigators Broughton jokingly told her that he would expose himself to her, but she told him she didn't want to see it.
Eventually the two walked back to the car, and when they got in, the deputy told her not to tell anyone about what happened. The deputy then drove back to the Sheriff's Office and the woman went home.
She told investigators she initially wanted to forget about the incident and worried that reporting it would jeopardize future job prospects with the sheriff's office.
But the woman decided she "was not going to let one bad deputy ruin her want to learn more by doing a ride-along," so she returned to LCSO to do another ride-along on Feb. 28.
While filling out paperwork, the woman mentioned that she didn't want to go on the ride-along with the same deputy (Broughton) that she went with last time.
She says the duty officer asked why, which lead to her making a citizen complaint.
An investigation was then opened into Broughton.
Complaint documents show that the woman's claim was consistent with GPS data from Broughton's patrol car.
When investigators tried to interview Broughton about the incident, he stated he wanted to talk to his attorney. Due to the initial investigation, a warrant for Broughton's arrest was issued.
He turned himself in on Saturday and has since been terminated. Broughton had been with LCSO since January of 2016.
