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The charges, filed last month against Robert Marlow after an investigation by Seattle police detectives and the FBI’s Public Corruption Squad, grew out of a probe of the Dancing Bare strip club at 10338 Aurora Ave. N.
According to the charges, Marlow was romantically involved with a dancer and shared drugs with her.
During the investigation, detectives discovered Marlow also had regularly sent Q13 news anchor David Rose text messages containing personal information on crime victims obtained from a restricted department computer database, according to charging documents filed in King County District Court.
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Marlow, 47, has pleaded not guilty to one count of violating the Uniform Controlled Substances Act, a felony, and one count of second-degree computer trespass, a gross misdemeanor[....]
He plans to plead guilty to gross misdemeanors under amended charges next week, his attorney, Nelson Lee, said Tuesday.
“This is something he is not running away from,” Lee said, adding his client has a drug-addiction problem and is undergoing treatment and attending Alcoholics Anonymous.
Marlow, who joined the department in 1999, has been on
paid administrative leave since he became implicated in the investigation last year.
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A confidential informant told detectives the dancer was reportedly selling narcotics in and around the club and telling people her boyfriend was a Seattle police officer later identified as Marlow, according to the documents.
The informant also reported the dancer and Marlow, a West Precinct patrol officer, had used cocaine inside the club, the documents say.
Detectives discovered Marlow and the dancer shared an apartment, and an undercover officer twice bought heroin from the dancer, according to the documents.
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The dancer said Marlow was responsible for buying the cocaine and MDMA and sharing it with her, the documents say.
The dancer also told investigators drugs would be found on a nightstand on Marlow’s side of their bed, as well as narcotics paraphernalia inside the apartment.
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During the initial interview with the dancer, Seattle police command staff summoned Marlow to headquarters and placed him on paid leave, taking his badge, gun and cellphone.
As investigators interviewed Marlow, detectives obtained a search warrant for his apartment and found trace amounts of suspected cocaine, some intermixed on a plate with Marlow’s Costco card, atop a computer desk, according to the documents.
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Detectives subsequently obtained a search warrant for Marlow’s cellphone and observed several pictures of Seattle police “database terminal responses” of individuals’ personal information, including their name, address, birth date, Social-Security information and other information, according to the documents.
“In each picture, the associated terminal was displaying the personal information of someone that Marlow had run through databases” while using his status as a police officer, the documents say.
With another search warrant, detectives discovered Marlow had sent text messages with the information to a phone belonging to Rose.
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Rose told investigators he never maliciously used the information but would contact Marlow to ask about people involved in Seattle police incidents.
After contacting people for news stories, Rose said he never maliciously collected or kept personal information and that he was simply reporting crimes for other potential victims to be aware of, the documents say.
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Rose anchors Q13 FOX News at 9, 10 and 11 p.m., according to his station biography. He is also executive producer and host of “Washington’s Most Wanted,” a weekly crime-fighting program that, according to the station, has led to the capture of more than 860 fugitives and helped numerous victims since 2008.
The Seattle police manual states inquiries through the records system are only to be made for legitimate law-enforcement purposes and are not to be shared with people outside the criminal-justice system without permission of the police chief or by due process of law, according to the documents.
Marlow’s unauthorized conduct constituted criminal trespass, the documents say.
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The Washington State Patrol Crime Laboratory found one of the capsules from the seized pills contained MDMA, Montgomery wrote.
The Police Department’s Office of Professional Accountability (OPA) has opened an internal investigation of Marlow, which is on hold pending the resolution of the criminal case, OPA Director Pierce Murphy said Tuesday.
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