Problem Philly cop, once fired for alleged sexual assault, is hired by Sheriff's Office as deputy ch
Michael Paige’s Philadelphia police personnel file was filled with red flags. Within five years of joining the force in 1990, a supervisor twice recommended that Paige be dismissed for violating departmental rules. Suspensions piled up, 100 days in all, for offenses that ranged from sleeping on the job to lying during an investigation into the death of a man named Moises DeJesus, court records show.
In 2007, Paige was fired, and charged with forcing another man, James Harris, to give him oral sex in Fairmount Park. Despite DNA evidence, Paige was acquitted, and regained his police job through arbitration, with the help of the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge No. 5. Harris filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against Paige, and in 2012, a jury ordered Paige to pay Harris $165,000 for “invasions of (Harris’) bodily integrity.” According to Harris’ attorney, Brian Humble, Paige still has yet to pay a dime.
And now Paige has landed a new job — with the Sheriff’s Office. As a deputy chief.
Paige joined the office on Oct. 27,
and is listed in city payroll records as earning $100,000 a year.
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