By Caitlin Doornbos
Orlando Sentinel
ORLANDO — An Orange County Sheriff’s deputy resigned after getting caught having sex on duty in uniform with a woman in his patrol car, a report says.
Then Deputy Tramaine McCray responded to a call for help about 2:24 a.m. June 13, 2015 from a woman who said she’d been “left stranded” on the side of the road by a man she’d been riding with in a vehicle, according to a recently released professional-standards investigation report.
The woman said the man had her get out of his vehicle, and when she did, he took off with her belongings still inside his vehicle, according to the report. The woman then called the Sheriff’s Office.
McCray responded to the scene, picked the woman up and took her to the man’s apartment to retrieve her belongings. McCray then arranged for the woman to meet her friends at the Walmart at 2500 South Kirkman Road where they would pick her up, according to the report.
But in between stops, the deputy and woman began “flirting” with one another, and McCray drove his patrol car to a dark, desolate area where the two engaged in a sex act, according to the report.
McCray was still on duty when he and the woman decided to purchase condoms from a nearby 7-Eleven so they could have sex, according to the report.
McCray then drove the woman to the convenience store, gave her his credit card and sent her inside for the condoms because it “wouldn’t look right” if he purchased the profilactics in uniform, McCray told OCSO investigators, acccording to the report.
The two then went in the patrol car to another dark, secluded parking lot where they had sex in the back of McCray’s patrol car, according to the report.
The woman told OCSO investigators that she was “paying her dues” because McCray “helped” her, according to the report.
"[McCray] did not threaten me. He did not put a gun to my head. He did not make me do anything I did not want to do,” the woman said in the report.
After the two finished having sex, McCray flipped on his emergency lights to escort the woman to the Walmart because the woman’s friends were en route and “he had to hurry up,” according to the report.
The Sheriff’s Office later ruled this was an improper use of emergency lights, according to the report.
McCray had been under surveillance after a tipster claimed McCray had been seen “participating in criminal acts with known prostitutes” on South Orange Blossom Trail while on duty, according to the report.
After McCray dropped the woman off at the Walmart, an investigator interviewed the woman and McCray was taken off duty.
McCray admitted to his conduct and also said it was not the first time he had sex while on the job, according to the report.
Though McCray had been removed from duty while the Sheriff’s Office conducted its investigation, McCray resigned from the department July 7, according to the report.
The investigation continued on, and on March 4, the sheriff’s office formally determined McCray had violated the OCSO’s written directives on “unbecoming conduct” and “operating vehicles,” according to the report.
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