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A US Border Patrol officer is accused of soliciting sex from a traveler News

A US Border Patrol officer is accused of soliciting sex from a traveler News

A U.S. Border Patrol agent is accused of using his position to force a woman he met during an airport screening to have sex with him multiple times under threat of deportation, according to a Guam Police Department press release and a magistrate complaint filed in Superior court.

He also reportedly took $5,100 from her, saying a tourist holding that amount would be suspicious.

Mensu Kim, also known as Jason Kim, 34, was charged Thursday with three counts of third-degree criminal sexual conduct as a second-degree felony, official misconduct as a misdemeanor and theft by threatening as a misdemeanor.

When the woman arrived in Guam on August 5, an immigration officer at the airport sent her for a second screening.

She said she was told she looked like a model and officials wanted to know if she would work while in Guam. Kim was brought in as an interpreter and he told her he could get her through immigration, according to the complaint.

When he asked her what she would give him in return, she asked if he wanted money. He said he would think about it, went to do some paperwork and came back later and said he had taken care of everything.

She asked again if he wanted money, and he said he never wanted money, according to the complaint. He told her that she would have to be his sexual partner for the two months she would be in Guam. Shocked, she asked if she could just pay him instead.

He told her she had no choice and could return to Korea if she didn’t agree, according to the complaint.

Later that evening, Kim called her and reminded her of the deal, saying he saw her underwear in her luggage and he liked her bra size. He said he would contact her later and if she did not comply, she would be arrested and deported, the complaint said.

About a week later, Kim contacted the woman and told her that if she did not have sex with him, he would cause problems for members of her family. He picked her up, stopped to buy condoms, drove her to Hafa Adai’s motel, and had sex with her. Then he brought her home and said he would contact her again.

He allegedly called her two more times, including once while on a break from work at the airport, and brought her to a hotel for sex, the complaint said.

The woman eventually told her boyfriend, who wanted to confront Kim, but the woman was afraid because Kim was a government employee. She told her boyfriend that Kim had taken $5,100 from her and eventually demanded the money back. First he returned the $1,000, and then she asked for all the money back, saying what he did was illegal. He returned all but $458.17.

Kim told the woman she better marry her boyfriend or never set foot on US soil again, and he said if she ever tried to pass immigration he would catch her.

On October 31, Kim, dressed in his uniform, met with relatives of the woman’s boyfriend at a store and showed his badge. He spoke to the boy and told him the charges had been reported. Kim said he was suffering consequences at work, so he would “work with his attorney to destroy (the woman’s) credibility by portraying her as a prostitute,” according to the complaint.

Kim was arrested Wednesday morning and booked into the Department of Corrections.