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EX PARMA POLICE MARK MCCOMBS
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Monday, Jun. 16, 2008 at 3:09 PM
JUST SENTENCE LAST WEEK OF TAMPERING WITH EVIDENCE
Former Parma Ohio Police Officer Only Convicted For Tampering With Evidence After Raping Motorist In His Patrol Car
PARMA, OHIO - A 45-year-old former Parma police officer was acquitted of rape, kidnapping and gross sexual imposition by a Cuyahoga County jury on Friday.
But the jury found Mark McCombs guilty of two counts of tampering with evidence.
McCombs now faces from 10 years in prison to community-controlled sanction, under which he would have to report to a probation officer. Judge Bridget McCafferty will decide his fate during sentencing May 28.
McCombs had been accused of raping a drunk and disoriented 23-year-old woman in his patrol car while he was on duty last April. Prosecutors also accused McCombs of taking nude pictures of the woman standing next to his patrol car. During the rape investigation, McCombs told another Parma officer to take the memory card containing the pictures out of the camera and bring it to him, Assistant County Prosecutor David Zimmerman said.
McCombs later destroyed the diskette, Zimmerman said. The officer who brought him the diskette was not charged because prosecutors said he did not know what McCombs planned to do with it.
During the trial that started Monday, Parma officers testified that McCombs tampered with the evidence by destroying the memory card, Zimmerman said. McCombs did not testify during the trial.
McCombs was fired from the Police Department last May along with Patrolman Christopher Dillenbeck, who was accused of watching McCombs have sex with the woman.
Neither McCombs nor his attorney, Henry Hilow, could be reached for comment Friday night.
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