Fired U.S. Heart for SafeSport investigator arrested on new fees
DENVER — An ex-cop fired from his job as an investigator on the U.S. Heart for SafeSport for allegedly stealing cash seized at a drug bust has been arrested once more, this time charged with rape and intercourse trafficking.
Jason Krasley, a former police officer in Allentown, Pennsylvania, was arrested Friday and charged with felony rape and involuntary sexual servitude for crimes allegedly dedicated whereas he was on the pressure between 2011 and 2015, in accordance with a information launch from the district legal professional’s workplace.
Krasley left the division in 2021 and went to work for the SafeSport Heart, which fired him final yr shortly after studying he’d been arrested for allegedly stealing $5,500 from a drug bust he helped conduct whereas on the pressure.
The brand new arrest resurfaces the query of how Krasley was capable of maneuver by means of what officers on the middle say is a sturdy vetting course of it makes use of to rent folks tasked with uncovering delicate info concerning sex-abuse instances.
The Denver-based middle was established in 2017 to cope with sex-abuse instances in Olympic sports activities from the elite degree all the way down to the grassroots. As of late final yr, it had 36 folks on its investigation staff; it has tapped into police forces, the place some detectives cope with related instances, to fill a few of these positions.
“I’m appalled {that a} former employees member has been accused of such heinous acts in his earlier position as a police officer,” SafeSport CEO Ju’Riese Colon mentioned in an emailed assertion to The Related Press. “We maintain all employees to the very best commonplace as a result of safeguarding athletes is our utmost precedence.”
The AP has discovered of two instances Krasley dealt with — one among which was assigned to a different investigator after his arrest on the theft fees. Within the different, the claimant requested if her case could possibly be reopened within the wake of the arrest and was advised in an e mail from a SafeSport worker that “these issues are already being reviewed previous to the requests and media consideration.”
Colon mentioned the middle has commissioned a third-party audit of instances Krasley dealt with.
“We’re working with subject material consultants to find out what extra actions must be taken in gentle of the brand new allegations,” she mentioned.
Krasley faces extra counts of felony kidnapping, involuntary deviate sexual activity and intimidation of a witness, along with misdemeanor prison coercion.
Krasley’s legal professional, James Burke, advised lehighvallleylive.com that Krasley “completely denies the allegations.” Burke didn’t return a voicemail left at his workplace by AP.
Krasley, 47, additionally is known as in a whistleblower lawsuit filed final yr by two Allentown officers who alleged widespread misconduct within the division.
Additionally arrested and charged with felony rape and involuntary sexual servitude Friday was a present Allentown officer, Kevin Weaver, who has been positioned on administrative depart.
