ILLINOIS — An Illinois State Police trooper confessed Friday that he ordered a young man and woman to strip and urinate during a traffic stop on Interstate Highway 94 near Northbrook, authorities said.
Trooper Jeremy M. Dozier, 31, of Beach Park, was charged in Cook County Circuit Court with four counts of official misconduct, authorities said.
The couple had undressed to their underwear at about 1:30 a.m. Thursday when they managed to drive away and call 911, authorities said. A dispatcher told them to meet a police officer at the Lake Forest I-94 oasis for help.
“Guess who the officer is?” asked Robert Podlasek, a Cook County assistant state’s attorney. “It’s him … It’s like a bad movie.”
Dozier posted $5,000 bail Friday.
Dozier, a 10-year state police employee, has been suspended with pay, said department spokesman Lt. Lincoln Hampton. Dozier wrote a confession, Podlasek said.