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Jul 12, 2007 9:39 am US/Central

State Trooper Must Pay $1M For Making Couple Strip

Jeremy Dozier Was Accused Of Making Couples Run Around Naked In Cook, Lake Counties

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The Associated Press contributed to this report.
CHICAGO (CBS) ― A former Illinois state trooper who made a young couple run around naked during a traffic stop has to pay them $1 million in damage.

Jeremy Dozier, of Beach Park, was ordered to make the payments as part of a civil lawsuit stemming from the incident – one of several similar incidents in which he was accused.

Dozier was convicted of official misconduct and bribery in the Cook County case in March of last year, and sentenced to six months in jail and two years probation for forcing a couple to strip after he found them in a parked car along a highway.

In June, a couple in one of the Cook County incidents, Dimitry Baum, 23, and his fiancee, Maria "Masha" Boyko, 19, filed a federal lawsuit against Dozier. A federal judge on Wednesday awarded each of them $500,000 in compensatory and punitive damages, the Tribune reported.

In later cases in Lake County, Dozier ordered a couple he found parked behind a Gurnee store on Feb. 5, 2005 to remove their clothes and make snow angels. He also admitted that he forced another couple parked near a hotel in Gurnee later that year to run naked in a parking lot.

The victims all said Dozier threatened them with arrest if they did not do as he said.

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