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A former Goddard police officer will serve two years of probation for a crime in which he was accused of offering to help a woman he arrested in exchange for sex.
On Monday, a federal judge sentenced Calvin Schaffer to two years of probation and a $500 fine. He had faced up to 20 years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000.
In September, Schaffer, 44, pleaded guilty to wire fraud by depriving citizens of honest services.
In his plea, he admitted to contacting a 31-year-old Wichita woman he arrested on Feb. 27 under suspicion of driving under the influence and admitted to suggesting he could get charges dismissed or reduced if she would have a relationship with him.
In the plea, Schaffer said he went to the Goddard city attorney and said he made a number of errors in the traffic stop, arrest and investigation involving the woman.
Schaffer also admitted that while on duty he used police computers to send e-mails and photographs to the woman in which he appeared nude or partly undressed — as part of his scheme to start a relationship with her.
The messages affected interstate commerce because they went over the Internet through servers in California and Virginia, his plea said.
During the brief sentencing hearing Monday, Schaffer told U.S. District Judge Wesley Brown that he was "truly sorry" for hurting his family and embarrassing the law enforcement community.
After the sentencing, Schaffer's lawyer, Roger Falk, said, "My client exercised very poor judgment."
Last spring, after Schaffer's arrest, Falk said Schaffer had worked in law enforcement for 15 years and had "absolutely no criminal record."
Before becoming a Goddard police officer, Schaffer spent about eight years as a Greenwood County sheriff's deputy.
According to an affidavit filed in the case, the woman secretly recorded her conversations with Schaffer and "played along" with him because she hoped it would help if a DUI case was brought against her.
Schaffer told FBI agents that the woman sent nude pictures to him first, the affidavit said.
Agents began investigating in March after the woman made a complaint about Schaffer to the FBI.
