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Richard McGee, pastor of Embrace Me Ministries in Bossier City, Louisiana, and retired deputy chief of Bossier City Police Department, stands accused of felony carnal knowledge of a juvenile.
The former second-in-command at the Bossier City Police Department is now wearing an ankle-monitoring device so that authorities can track his movements as he awaits trial on criminal charges alleging sexual conduct with an underage girl.
In addition to being fitted with the GPS device after a court appearance Thursday morning, Richard Broom McGee, 57, also was served with a protective order to stay away from the alleged victim.
The investigation that led to the arrest of McGee, BCPD’s now-retired deputy chief, arose out of a corruption investigation by Louisiana State Police, sources told KTBS News.
McGee, who was deputy police chief from 2015-23, was arrested earlier this week after a Caddo Parish grand jury indicted him for felony carnal knowledge of a juvenile. He is free on $150,000 bond.
Authorities allege there was sexual misconduct in Caddo Parish involving a babysitter, beginning when she was in her early teens and continuing for several years. They would not provide details about how McGee knew the alleged victim.
The State Police investigation that led to those charges began in late 2022 or early 2023 after authorities received information that suspects in criminal cases had gotten tips from inside the Bossier City Police Department that officers were about to conduct raids, sources told KTBS News, speaking on condition they not be identified because it is an ongoing investigation.
No charges have resulted from that investigation. But sources told KTBS News that while State Police detectives were investigating that case, they got complaints of sexual misconduct by McGee involving underage girls in Caddo and Bossier parishes, with one case occurring in the late 1990s.
No charges have been filed against McGee in Bossier Parish, but prosecutors in Caddo Parish are expected to use a provision of Louisiana law that allows them to use evidence of sexual misconduct involving another female to try to show a pattern of behavior.
The Caddo District Attorney’s Office declined to comment on the case. State Police are continuing their investigation.
McGee’s defense attorney, Eric Johnson of Minden, said his client denies wrongdoing. He will be arraigned on Jan. 9.
“Mr. McGee looks forward to facing these allegations in court and we feel confident he will be completely exonerated,” Johnson said.
McGee is also a minister and has been a pastor at Embrace Me Ministries in Bossier City for 13 years.
A 30-year veteran, he was deputy chief of police in Bossier City until January 2023, when he was placed on paid leave for undisclosed policy violations. He then retired
Bruce Gerencser, 67, lives in rural Northwest Ohio with his wife of 46 years. He and his wife have six grown children and sixteen grandchildren. Bruce pastored Evangelical churches for twenty-five years in Ohio, Texas, and Michigan. Bruce left the ministry in 2005, and in 2008 he left Christianity. Bruce is now a humanist and an atheist.
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