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http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/248016_basney11.html
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About 10:24 p.m. on June 21, 2004, Seattle police received several 911 calls reporting a fight at the Scarlet Tree Restaurant in North Seattle, with at least one caller reporting that a man had hit a woman, knocking her to the ground.
Basney, a 12-year veteran, and Officer Rusty Leslie responded. The two officers learned from patrons that there had been an argument between a man and a woman, though from their interviews with witnesses, it was not clear that she had been assaulted.
Both officers said the woman showed no signs of having been assaulted and denied that she was a victim of an assault.
The man who had been with her was her cousin, she told the officers, but he had left the scene before police arrived. That man, it turned out, was engaged to the woman.
Witnesses agreed that the woman was intoxicated, though Basney told other officers that she did not appear so to him.
In interviews with department investigators, Basney said the woman told him he was cute and offered to have sex with both him and Leslie.
Leslie declined, but Basney ended up asking to take the rest of his shift off as vacation time, as is allowed under department policy, and cited a personal matter.
Neither officer filed a report on the incident.
Basney drove the woman to the North Precinct in his patrol car. While she waited outside, he changed into civilian clothes, drove the woman to his apartment and they had what was described in the documents as consensual sex.
Later, Basney dropped the woman off near the home of her fiancé. When the man learned what had taken place, he filed a complaint.
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