Police Officer Arrested for Armed Sexual Battery, Kidnapping

By Justin Finch, NBCMiami.com

Police Officer Arrested for Armed Sexual Battery, Kidnapping

January 31, 2013 Updated Jan 31, 2013 at 10:40 AM PDT

A Miami Police officer was arrested Wednesday on charges of armed sexual battery by a law enforcement officer and armed kidnapping, authorities said.

Luis Hernandez, 27, a seven-year member of the police department, was arrested by internal affairs detectives after DNA evidence backed up a woman's claims he kidnapped and sexually battered her in November 2011, police said.

"The findings were enough to have a Miami-Dade County judge sign an arrest warrant and charge Officer Luis Hernandez with sexual battery by a law enforcement officer and armed kidnapping," Miami Police spokeswoman Officer Kenia Reyes said.

The charges stem from an early morning alleged attack by Hernandez on Nov. 26, 2011. That day, he was called in to relieve an officer going off-duty by transporting a 44-year-old woman to to the Miami-Dade County Jail. She had just been arrested after an earlier bar fight, police said.

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