UPDATE March 17, 2015: According to charging documents, Darrell Best is charged with sexually assaulting another teenager.
The second victim is now 18 but was 17 at the time. According to her, she was assaulted in Best’s office of the 5th floor of the Metropolitan Police Department headquarters after he took her out to dinner on Dec. 3, 2014.
EARLIER:
WASHINGTON — A Metropolitan Police Department officer and pastor has been arrested for sex abuse of a minor.
Darrell Best, 45, of Upper Marlboro, Maryland was arrested and charged on Monday, March 16.
On Saturday a 16-year-old girl reported to the Metropolitan Police Department that on three occasions, beginning in December 2014, she was a victim of Best who also acts as pastor of God of a Second Chance Ministry Church in Southeast D.C.
Best was arrested in Largo, Maryland after an investigation.
Anyone with additional information is asked to call the Youth Investigations Division at (202) 576-6768 or the Command Information Center (202) 727-9099.
Information may also be submitted anonymously by text to 50411
