Disgraced Tennessee police chief fired over colleague sex scandal is arrested for aggravated stalking

A former Tennessee police chief has been fired over a sex scandal that rocked the city and has now been arrested for stalking.

Murfreesboro police said former La Vergne Police Chief Burrel “Chip” Davis was arrested at an apartment complex on December 23.

He was subsequently taken into custody on a warrant for aggravated stalking after allegedly violating a protective order. according to WKRN.

Davis was arrested without incident and booked into the Rutherford County Adult Detention Center on a $3,000 bond.

The arrest came just over a week after a Tennessee commission voted unanimously to decertify Davis as a law enforcement officer, barring him from working for police departments in the state.

Members of the Tennessee Peace Officer Standards and Training Commission ruled that his conduct before and after a sexual harassment investigation involving wildcat police officer Maegan Hall was not consistent with the professional standards of a police officer, let alone a police chief. WTVF reports.

Davis had claimed he had no knowledge of a sexual relationship between officers in his force when a whistleblower alleged Hall had “intimate relationships” with multiple male colleagues and even on police property.

During the course of a subsequent investigation, it emerged that Hall had sex with several fellow officers – including Officer Lewis Powell – and that they had engaged in sexual acts while on duty.

When investigators later questioned her about the claims, Hall said she had played “strip Uno” games, exchanged foot fetish photos and engaged in wife-swapping sessions with fellow officers.

That’s when, Davis said, city officials first asked him about graphic images of Hall circulating around the police station.

He claimed that he cooperated with investigators at the time, and when they could not determine that he had committed any wrongdoing, he was allowed to return to work.

But Hall later claimed he did had been ‘sexually groomed’ by her ‘predator’ superiors and had tried to ‘kill himself’.

She then filed her own lawsuit, claiming that: “Sgt. Powell positioned himself as a reliable source of companionship and advice about Mrs. Hall’s career and her marriage.

The lawsuit stated: “Sgt. Powell continued to make requests for sex despite Ms. Hall’s resistance. Finally, Mrs. Hall gave in to Sgt. Powell’s requests for sexual favors.”

She further claimed that Powell threatened to kill herself when she tried to quit.

Initially, Powell denied the relationship, but later admitted it – claiming Davis told him to lie.

Hall also claimed that Davis was “no better than his subordinates, who invited Hall to lunch dates, asked her to come to his office to dance for him and wondered whether she preferred ‘dark, white or milk chocolate.’

It later emerged that Davis had shared explicit videos of Hall and made sexist comments on a secret phone he nicknamed “Ole Boy.”

Davis feigned surprise as he oversaw the internal investigation into the scandal.

But court records obtained by DailyMail.com later revealed that Davis knew all about the events before the investigation and had even harassed one of his sergeants into sending him a video of Hall masturbating.

Davis was fired from his position in the aftermath, as the city of La Vergne ultimately settled the lawsuit for $500,000 with no admission of guilt on the city’s behalf.

The disgraced police chief later tried to file his own lawsuit against the city, claiming his firing was the result of racial discrimination.

He told commissioners on December 12 that his lawsuit was dismissed because he filed it a day late, putting the blame back on Hall – and even suggesting that there should have been a criminal investigation at some point with Hall as the prime suspect and with ‘many victims.’

“First of all, this all stemmed from a private party on a houseboat and had nothing to do with the police department other than the fact that an officer was present,” Davis argued.

“If they were worried about me, well, my head of internal affairs had sex with her on the boat, but he still works there.”

Davis did not deny receiving racy photos of Hall from former sergeant. Ty McGowan in a text message during the hearing.

One of the photos reportedly showed a black man’s foot in Hall’s mouth, and investigators alleged McGowan told Davis the foot belonged to one of her colleagues on the force.

Along with the photo, McGowan reportedly wrote, “She has a tight little one,” to which Davis replied, “Yes she does.”

He then claimed that the messages were nothing more than innocent banter between friends “who were not on city phones.”

“Did I let my hair down and trust a friend? Yes. Did they use it against me? Yes. Am I responsible and liable for my text messages? Yes,” Davis said.

‘Am I going to say this is a reflection of my work? No, because I was doing my job.’

He then tried to claim that if the committee had seen all the evidence, they would know that some messages were missing, which would prove that he had no idea who was in the photos with Hall.

POST researchers responded by saying that the only reason some of the messages were missing was because Davis initially denied having another phone and deleted many of the messages.

“It’s my phone,” Davis argued. “Those text messages will be deleted when I receive them. It had nothing to do with this investigation. They were gone before that.’

But commissioners ultimately told Davis it didn’t matter whether the messages came from people he considered friends, saying, “You’re a police officer 24/7 and a chief 24/7.”

“I think your behavior was very unbecoming.”