Jemini Jones, a suspended Baltimore police officer and former member of the notorious Southwestern District flex squad, was arrested Monday morning on handgun charges after a high-speed chase through city streets.
Jones is currently awaiting trial on rape and sexual assault charges. He is suspended from the police department without pay.
Charging documents obtained by The Examiner stated that Jones tried to evade city police officers in his black 2006 Nissan 350Z after he was observed running a red light Monday morning at 33rd and Frisby streets. An officer driving a marked police car with its lights and siren on pursued Jones “through several residential streets” before he drove into an alley and turned off his car lights, the documents said.
Officers found a Ruger .40-caliber handgun with a live round in the chamber, and two magazines of multiple rounds in Jones? car, although he was “not permitted to carry a handgun,” according to the charging documents.
Jones was charged with two counts of felony handgun possession. Bail was set at $300,000.
Jones was part of the Southwestern District flex squad that was disbanded in 2005 under a cloud of allegations of sexual misconduct. In January, he was indicted on rape charges for allegedly offering to release a 22-year-old drug suspect in exchange for sex at a precinct house. In May, he was indicted on rape and misconduct charges for allegedly having sex with a woman while executing a search warrant. He had been free on bail.
Jones is also a defendant in the lawsuit filed by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People against the city alleging illegal arrests, as well as a lawsuit seeking $10 million for an alleged illegal arrest.
Police officials declined to comment on Jones? arrest. His attorney did not return several phone calls by press time.
