San Diego police officer Anthony Hair resigns after locking himself in backseat with female detainee: ‘Are you single?’
A San Diego police officer has resigned after he was caught locked in the backseat of his squad car with a female detainee who propositioned him for sex last year, newly released bodycam footage showed.
Officer Anthony Hair left his post about a month after a probe was launched into the August 2023 incident and one day before he was to meet with investigators for his second scheduled interview.
Hair, who had been with the SDPD for two years, found himself in the vehicle with the female suspect after he arrested her on suspicion of stealing a car outside a convenience store, according to CBS 8.
The suspect, who has not been named, was one of two people wanted for car theft. She also had a bench warrant out for her arrest.
After Hair arrested her, he was supposed to bring her to police headquarters and later to the Las Colinas Detention Center in Santee, Calif., for questioning.
In bodycam footage released by the SDPD, the suspect was heard propositioning the officer for sex after asking him if he was married.
“You’re not too bad. What’s it gonna hurt me if I work the system, you know what I mean? That’s the way I see s–t,” she told Hair.
“Are you single?” she added, to which he responded, “Yeah, but you’re not.”
“I’m down to f–k right now,” she told him, before he interrupts, “Don’t say that right now … Don’t say that right now because everything is being recorded right now.”
As the pair approach the detention center, Hair can be heard asking the female suspect what she is doing in the backseat.
Hair turned off his bodycam and slowed his vehicle as he drove onto a residential street, the outlet added.
About 20 minutes later, Hair called for a fellow officer to help him out of the police car over the embarrassing mishap.
“I asked him if he was okay. He said yes, and then asked if I had my patrol car key with me … I asked why he was asking and what did he need,” the unidentified officer said of Hair, describing him as panicked. “Officer Hair then asked me if I could go meet him.”
“I asked him his location and he said, near Cottonwood … I asked him why he needed me, and he said he would tell me when I got there. He said he was really embarrassed.”
Investigators reported that Hair believed the woman was suffering from a medical emergency, according to NBC San Diego.
Hair and the woman denied anything untoward happened, as the officer claimed he was “checking” on the suspect in the back.
“When I was waking her up, that’s when I noticed that this door closed on me. That’s when I was trying to kind of open the door,” Hair said in the clip.
San Diego police found traces of semen on Hair’s belt, CBS reported.
“He wanted to get with me when I was done with the warrant or whatever I got arrested for,” she said.
It’s unclear if he faces any criminal charges over the ordeal.
The Post has reached out to the San Diego Police Department for comment.
