Accusations of assault, harassment,
and stalking while on and off
duty have been reported against
one of Saint Louis County's
highest ranking female commanders,
according to several police
reports obtained by 5 on your side.
The alleged victims include
former and current police officers
from other area departments.
Tonight the I team's Christine
Byers explains why they say the
county Police Department isn't doing
enough to ensure their safety.
Saint Louis County Lieutenant
Aretha Williams is the face of the
community engagement units and the
former head of the department's
domestic violence unit's former
University City Officer Mike English
and several of his friends say they
know a very different side of her.
She says a poor example of what
police officers are and how to
police the communities that we serve.
English started dating Williams in 2014.
Do you feel like she should have
been married? She gonna have more
kids and she blamed all that on me.
English study has blocked an untold
amount of unknown numbers which he
believes Williams uses to contact him.
I have over 1000 numbers with
thousand different texts in my phone
video from his home surveillance system
shows Williams at his house several times
at least once in uniform. In this video,
Williams can be seen hitting English
and kicking him before he says he
tried to push her away and she fell.
He said he's moved three
times in the past two years.
Why didn't you call the police?
Two police officers involved in some
domestic, where again she's 531 forty
give or take, and I'm 643 hundred.
Even when I was on on on call,
the guys going to jail ten out of 10,
four days after the department
received a complaint about
Williams's conduct toward English,
she filed an order of protection against him.
English believes it was
retaliation for his complaint,
alleging he assaulted her and was
harassing her at work by repeatedly
calling and filing false complaints.
The I team has learned.
Others say they've been targeted
by Lieutenant Williams, too.
I can't sleep at night.
I have nightmares.
Nate Cooper is friends with English.
Earlier this year,
she says Williams had her followed.
I don't know the reason why she's doing this.
This Maryland Heights police report shows
dozens of text messages from an unknown
number English received which read I
am here at your house watching Netpac.
This is going to be her death day.
I just feel like I'm a target
to hurt days later.
Records show Maryland Heights
police were called off.
Detectives wrote that per Chief Mary Barton,
the county police would quote be
conducting the investigation,
a police spokeswoman.
Wrote that the investigation is
quote currently under review,
and that's as far as it got prosecutors
here in Saint Louis County say they
never got the case.
Meanwhile, English says
the harassment continues.
He says his girlfriend,
a Saint Louis City police officer,
is the latest target.
My girlfriends pregnant right now
and she's like since her death
threats like we know where you live,
we were waiting on you
earlier this month.
English filed a protection order.
Then hours later someone
broke into his house.
Soon after he got another
text from an unknown number.
Which red yeah I did
and going do it again.
She knows a lot of people and how
a lot of high places and she knows
technology so and she has a gun
so it's a scary scary situation
for the I team Christina
Byers 5 on your side. Williams
has not been formally accused of a crime
or any official misconduct at this point.
These are allegations made
by English and others.
Kate doesn't typically report
on criminal allegations against
someone until they are charged,
except when it involves a public
official such as Lieutenant Williams.
The I team call Lieutenant Williams
attorney multiple times in the
weeks leading up to this story,
she called us back yesterday.
She offered to share Lieutenant Williams
side of the story at a later date.
Lieutenant Williams continues to represent
the department and public events,
while the investigation into her
conduct is being carried out.
You can read Christine's full
report at ksdk.com
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