FEMALE TENNESSEE COP CLAIMES SHE WAS 'SEXUALLY GROOMED' BY SUPERIOR OFFICERS

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

 

By Melissa Koenig 

Daily Mail

Jan 1, 2025

 

Top row, L-R: Chief Burrel “Chip” Davis, Sgt. Henry Ty McGowan, Det. Seneca Shields. Bottom row, L-R: Officer Juan Lugo-Perez, Sgt. Lewis Powell, Officer Maegan Hall 

 

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

Murfreesboro police reported that former La Vergne Police Chief Burrel 'Chip' Davis was arrested at an apartment complex on December 23.

He was then taken into custody on a warrant for aggravated stalking, after he allegedly violated an order of protection, according to WKRN.

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

The arrest came just over one week after a Tennessee commission unanimously voted to decertify Davis as a law enforcement officer - barring him from working at any police departments across the state.

The members of the Tennessee Peace Officer Standards and Training Commission ruled that his conduct before and after a sexual harassment investigation involving  cop-gone-wild Maegan Hall did not uphold 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 on his force when a whistleblower claimed that Hall, was having 'intimate relationships' with multiple male colleagues and even on police property.

Over the course of an ensuing investigation, it emerged that Hall was having sex with multiple fellow officers - including officer Lewis Powell - and they had carried out sex acts while on duty.

 

Former La Vergne Police Chief Burrel 'Chip' Davis was arrested at an apartment complex on December 23 for aggravated stalking

 

Members of the Tennessee Peace Officer Standards and Training Commission ruled that his conduct before and after a sexual harassment investigation involving cop-gone-wild Maegan Hall did not uphold the professional standards of a police officer, let alone a police chief

 

When investigators later questioned her about the claims, Hall said she had played games of 'strip Uno' exchanged foot fetish photos and played out wife swapping sessions with fellow officers. 

That is when, Davis said, city officials first asked him about graphic images of Hall that were circulating around the police department.

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

But Hall later claimed she had been 'sexually groomed' by her 'predator' superiors and had tried to 'kill herself.'   

She then filed her own lawsuit, claiming that: 'Sgt. Powell positioned himself as a reliable source of companionship and advice regarding Ms. Hall's career and her marriage.

The lawsuit said: 'Sgt. Powell persisted in requests for sex despite Ms. Hall's resistance. Eventually, Ms. Hall gave in to Sgt. Powell's requests for sexual favors.' 

She went on to claim that Powell threatened to kill himself when she tried to stop.

At first, Powell denied the relationship, but later admitted to it - claiming that Davis told him to lie.

 

Hall claimed she had been 'sexually groomed' by her 'predator' superiors and had tried to 'kill herself'

 

Hall also claimed that Davis was 'no better than his subordinates, inviting Hall on lunch dates, asking her to come into his office to dance for him and questioning 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 burner phone he nicknamed 'Ole Boy.'

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

But court filings obtained by DailyMail.com later revealed that Davis knew all about the events before the inquiry and had even pestered one of his sergeants to send him video of Hall masturbating.

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

 

Officers Lewis Powell (left) and Detective Seneca Shields (right) were fired for engaging in sexual relationships with Hall while on duty. Powell confessed to the allegations after initially denying he was sexually involved with her, while Shields admitted to having oral sex with Hall in the department's gym while on duty

 

K-9 officer Larry Holladay (left) and patrol officer Patrick Magliocco (right)  were both suspended for having sexual relationships with Hall

 

Hall also confirmed having sexual relations with Juan Lugo-Perez (left). He confessed to having sex with Hall and sending explicit images and was fired. Patrol Officer Gavin Schoeberl (right)  swapped naked pictures with Hall but escaped suspension

 

 

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

He told commissioners on December 12 that his suit was denied because he filed it one day too late, as he placed the blame back on Hall - even suggesting at one point there should have been a criminal investigation with Hall as the primary suspect and with 'many victims.'

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

'If they were concerned about me - well my head of internal affairs had sex with her on the boat, but he's still working there.'

 

The commission unanimously voted to decertify Davis as a law enforcement officer - barring him from working at any police departments across the state

 

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

Once of the photos allegedly showed a black man's foot in Hall's mouth, and investigators claimed McGowan told Davis the foot belonged to one of her colleagues at the police department.

Along with the photo, McGowan allegedly wrote, 'She has a tight little a**,' to which Davis responded, 'yup.'

He then claimed that the messages were just harmless banter between friends 'that were not on city phones.

'Did I let my hair down and have trust in a friend? Yes. Did they use it against me? Yes. Am I going to be responsible and accountable for my text messages? Yes,' Davis said.

'Am I going to say that's a reflection on my job? No because I did my job.' 

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

POST investigators responded by saying the only reason why some messages were missing was because Davis originally denied having another phone and deleted many of the messages.

'It's my phone,' Davis argued. 'Those text messages are deleted when I get them. It had nothing to do with this investigation. They were gone well before that.'

But commissioners ultimately told Davis it did not matter if the messages were from people he considered friends, saying, 'You're a police officer 24/7 and you're a chief 24/7. 

'I think your conduct was very unbecoming.'