Sheriff’s deputies arrested a former veteran police officer Wednesday on child molestation charges.
Former Parker Police Lt. Rockey Kummer, 52, of Swan Road, was taken into custody when he arrived at the local airport Wednesday, according to the Bay County Sheriff’s Office.
Sheriff’s Maj. Tommy Ford said investigators “do believe that he was an officer during a portion of these incidents,” which are alleged to have occurred several times between 2000 and 2008.
He served 28 years in law enforcement in Bay County before heading overseas in May 2006, nearly tripling his salary to train border officers and Afghani police for U.S. government subcontractor DynCorp International.
Ford said Parker police came to sheriff’s investigators with the allegations in October, and over the next two months, interviews with the victim and witnesses “verified the original information.”
The victim was not someone Parker arrested, detained or encountered in his capacity as a police officer, Ford said.
Parker police declined to immediately release further details pending an internal investigation.
Kummer frequently served as a police media spokesman over the years. All the cases he worked as an officer are listed in Bay County’s online court records as traffic incidents.
In 2005, the city cut ties with a volunteer firefighter who was charged with disorderly conduct and resisting arrest after an argument with Kummer at the scene of a car crash. Those charges later were dropped.
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