Deputy arrested after sex offer to inmate

A Nassau County Sheriff's Office evidence custodian has been arrested on charges of official misconduct, tampering with evidence, battery and unnatural and lascivious acts. He reportedly played pornographic tapes in front of a male jail inmate and offered to perform oral sex on the inmate. Jarrett Wade Hodges, 36, originally was suspended with pay last week after investigators began auditing the department's "high liability" evidence, such as drugs, guns and money. Nassau County Sheriff Tommy Seagraves confirmed Thursday morning that Hodges, a sworn law enforcement officer who worked in the evidence room, was suspended June 30. He declined to be more specific about the matter.In a press release Thursday afternoon, Seagraves announced Hodges had been arrested. According to Seagraves' written statement, Hodges asked the victim, a 24-year-old inmate, if he wanted to enter the evidence room. "While in the evidence room, ... Hodges grabbed and fondled the victim's genitals and offered to perform oral sex on the victim ... (he) told the victim that things could go either hard or easy and that the victim could get into a lot of trouble," Seagraves said in the written statement. Hodges reportedly stopped his actions when he realized the victim was wired.

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