Secrets revealed in ex-Fort Myers police officer sex scandal

That was an issued that even sergeants were questioned about during the investigation.

(Question): Did you have any knowledge of the whole shift going to breakfast  after briefing? (A) I was made aware that that’s usually a location they meet early in the morning.”

Basora claimed during the interrogations that the Sergeants knew all along that some officers were going to eat a free, complimentary breakfast saying, “Yeah, these sergeants knew where we were eating.”

Another in officer in training with Basora said, “After he gets done with breakfast, (he would) take a ‘to-go’ plate to feed the poor, to a female named Neomi. (Question): And approximately how many times did he go, quote ‘feed the poor’, go to Neomi’s house? (Answer): Almost every day.”

When asked about having trainees with him, Neomi said, “He would come see me and we would have sex. I was wondering, how’s he going to do this when he has a trainee with him”.

She kept what investigators called in these interviews, thousands of text messages, saying once, “It says he’s on a traffic stop, so that also shows he was working that day. (Question): Okay and again, there’s no question you guys had sex that day? (Anser): There’s no question.”

Investigators asked her repeatedly how she knew he was on duty.

Noemi read the text messages off her phone, “He says, ‘I’m heading that way soon. May have a dead body in Renaissance Preserve’. So, he’s definitely working. (Question): Did you have sex that day? (Answer): Yes. (Question): Was he working? (Answer): Yes, he was in uniform, he was working.”

Throughout the interrogations, Basora insisted that they never had sex while he was on duty but that they did have sex…….a lot of sex. “We’ve had sex, I can’t even tell you how many times, and it wasn’t because it sucked, it was because it was good.”.

But his girlfriend, and other officers – say there was more than sex – like taking naps while on the clock. “If he doesn’t come see me to have sex, he takes a nap by some like abandoned parking lot while he was working,” said Noemi.

A different training officer recalled this, “After breakfast we would go to the church and he would sleep. (Question): And did he give you any instructions as to what to do if someone called on the radio? (Answer): To listen to the radio and wake him up.”

When questioned about this, Basora said that other Fort Myers cops took naps while on duty. “He would go sleep at his mom and dad’s house and I would be answering the radio while in the gym.”

And the gym was where, Basora says, even supervisors were working out while on duty. A different officer, not a training officer agreed, “(Question): It was common practice when working out some of the supervisors are in there,” he said.

One officer who Basora was supposed to be training says he had to take up the slack, “I took care of the other calls because I don’t think we should go to the gym and workout if there’s calls holding.”

Some days, Noemi says, Basora would come over more than once. Like the night of September 18, 2014. “(Question): So, how many times did you guys have sex that day? (Answer): Three times. (Question) And, was he working? (Answer): Yes, definitely working.”

You might find that late evening sexual encounter particularly interesting because it ended on the morning of September 19th and because later that day that evening ‐ Oscar Basora got married – to another woman. And she wound up running into Noemi a few months later when she and Basora were coming out of the theater at the Gulf Coast Town Center.

“She approached us and she said, ‘so is this your girlfriend?’,” Basora testified to during the investigation. “That’s when my wife responded, ‘I’m his wife, I’m not his girlfriend’. And I just kept escorting my wife to the car and then my wife turned around and looked at her and said, ‘you’re a whore, your’e nothing but a whore, you’re only gonna be a whore’.

So, what does Basora say about Noemi now? “I regret my whole relationship with her and I should’ve cut it off sooner.”

“This is nothing more than a relationship that ended. One person was unhappy about it and one person was happy. That’s it. Simple as that,” says Fort Myers attorney Joe Viacava, who was not representing Basora at the time but is now.

“They could have corroborated things a bit better and they didn’t need to take these initial allegations as true and I think that led them down a road that by the time they realized it, it was kinda too late for everybody. But overall, they got it wrong and he wound up resigning before ever a formal disposition was done and that’s the shame of this.”

And what do the rookie officers Basora was supposed to be training think now?

One training officer summed it up this way, “I felt like we could’ve done so much more. As far as the city goes, I don’t think it was fair to the city. My work ethic’s a little bit different.”

We’ve asked FMPD officials for weeks to comment about this story, but they declined.