Ex-chief of Pelican Bay indicted on oppression charges(Dallas-Ft. Worth Star-Telegram, February 13, 2008)A former police chief of Pelican Bay has found himself on the wrong side of the law.
Eddie Wayne Frankum Jr., 36, a candidate for sheriff in Kaufman County, surrendered to authorities Monday, four days after a Tarrant County grand jury indicted him on three charges of official oppression. Two of the indictments accuse Frankum of sexually harassing two women while acting as a peace officer for Pelican Bay. The third accuses him of having one of the women arrested for reasons that he "knew not to be true."
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Two of the indictments stem from allegations that Frankum inappropriately touched two women while they were being frisked, including in one case "pulling open her pants and undergarments with his hands, in an offensive manner," the indictments state.
Mike Adair, an investigator for the district attorney's office, said one woman was frisked after she was arrested in February 2006 at a friend's home in Pelican Bay. The second woman, Adair said, was frisked after she and her husband were pulled over during a routine traffic stop in July 2006. Adair said the woman's husband was arrested that day on suspicion of having a marijuana cigarette in the car but was later released and never charged. About a month later, Adair said, Pelican Bay police issued a warrant for the woman's arrest on a charge of endangering a child, stemming from that traffic stop.
The third indictment alleges that Frankum had a woman arrested "based upon facts the defendant knew to not be true and correct." Frankum resigned as Pelican Bay police chief in July after he came under fire for setting up an impound lot for towed cars, among other things.
He currently lives in Forney and is running in the Republican primary for Kaufman County sheriff. I am
so not surprised.
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