Cop-gone-wild Maegan Hall breaks her silence after being fired over a sex scandal with seven fellow officers
Tennessee cop Maegan Hall has broken her silence for the first time since being fired after a salacious sex scandal with seven fellow officers surfaced
Hall, 26, said that she felt ‘terrorized’ by her superiors and earlier this week revealed in a federal civil rights case filing that she felt ‘sexually groomed’
The lawsuit names four colleagues as defendants and was filed in the United States District Court in the Middle District of Tennessee
Tennessee cop-gone-wild Maegan Hall has broken her silence for the first time since being fired after a salacious sex scandal with seven fellow officers surfaced – stating that she ‘did say no.’
Hall, 26, told WTVF that she felt ‘terrorized’ by her superiors and earlier this week revealed that she felt ‘sexually groomed’ in a federal civil rights case filing.
The lawsuit names several high-profile police officers from the La Vergne Police Department and claims that they ‘took advantage’ of her poor mental state and vulnerabilities as she navigated a troubled marriage.
Hall echoed claims being made in the 51-page lawsuit in her first interview since the incident, stressing that while she’s not ‘calling it rape‘ she ‘gave in from the pressure.’
Detailed descriptions of Hall’s sexual exploits with fellow officers emerged from the Tennessee police department, the lawsuit claiming that the affairs took shape after her on-the-job affair with Sgt. Lewis Powell.
‘I know what most people are saying, you know, you could’ve said no. I get it. But my response to them is “I did say no,” and he wouldn’t take it for an answer,’ she revealed in the tell-all with the broadcaster.
‘Eventually, I gave in from the pressure.’
Its claimed that from there she had sexual relationships with Larry Holladay, Patrick Magliocco, Ty McGowan, Juan Lugo-Perez, Gavin Schoeberl and Detective Seneca Shields.
Powell, Lugo-Perez, McGowan and Shields were fired over the incidents. The others, however, kept their jobs but were suspended.
Last month, La Vergne Police Chief Burrel ‘Chip’ Davis was also fired.
Hall, who blamed her behavior on a troubled marriage, said she was targeted by the department’s all-male second shift and was lured into a life of promiscuity.
‘I remember while applying for the job at the PD they described the environment as a family. But while I was aspiring to protect others, they did not protect me,’ Hall said.
‘My supervisors worked together to take advantage of my vulnerabilities and mental health, and they used it for their gain and their sexual pleasure.
‘Who do you turn to when the chief of police is sexually harassing you? How can I get justice when the entire system, including the chief, not only condoned such behavior but participated in it? I was lost, and I felt alone. I had no one to turn to and nowhere to go.’
The 26-year-old said in the harrowing interview that she had been receiving threats since the story went public.
‘I received harassing and threatening messages on my phone daily. I felt like I was terrorized,’ she said.
Hall’s lawyer, Wesley Clark, told WTVF that ‘Maegan wasn’t looked at like a rookie cop to be trained and promoted.
‘She was looked at like a piece of meat to be sexualized and exploited.’
The 26-year-old was fired in January and in an interview during an internal investigation admitted that she performed sex acts on-duty officers on police property including a threesome with one cop and his wife.
The lawsuit claims: ‘Where Ms. Hall sought role models at her new job, she instead found predators.
‘In place of offering professional development, her supervisors and the Chief of Police groomed her for sexual exploitation.
During a second and third interview, Hall – already on a final warning for crashing her patrol car three times – admitted she had a months-long affair with Powell and even performed a sex act while on duty.
‘I just gave him a blowjob in the substation,’ she admitted. ‘Me and my husband were kind of on the verge of a divorce and I just cracked and then it just kind of got out of hand.’
Married Powell denied the tryst but came clean when it was discovered that he and heavily-tattooed Hall met up in December to compare notes in an effort to thwart the investigation.
She told Patton that Powell had threatened to kill himself when she tried to break things off, texting her to say: ‘You betrayed me, I thought you cared about me, no one’s here but me, you really hurt me.’
Hall further confessed to getting drunk at a ‘girls gone wild’ hot tub party where she sang karaoke and fell down a flight of stairs before having sex with Magliocco in a bathroom of a colleague’s boat.
‘My bathing suit was a little loose and it fell off,’ she added, coyly.
DailyMail.com revealed that Hall’s husband Jedidiah, a sheriff’s deputy and the son of a pastor, was sticking with his wife and trying to work through their problems.
She told Patton of a cringeworthy encounter where she, along with Magliocco and his wife Amy, tried to coax Jedidiah into a sexy wife-swapping session that fell flat.
‘When Mags was like right by us, and then on the couch Mags was like ”If y’all start making out, maybe Jed will get into, my husband, into the idea.” And when we started making out, Jed was like ”no.”
‘Yeah, [inaudible] me and my husband have had a threesome before so, I, I didn’t know if it was going to like, I didn’t think he would have an issue with it.’
Hall revealed she made another attempt to rope Jedediah into a threesome with Sgt. Ty McGowan and his wife V but it quickly petered out.
‘Jed came home, we started drinking. Ty wanted to try to get Jed to have a thing with all of us,’ she told Patton. ‘We played strip Uno and then V went out onto the patio with Jed, me and Ty kissed for a little bit and then that was it.’
Hall admitted sleeping with McGowan on two occasions, the first after she had just taken her psyche exam prior to even having been sworn in for her $53,000-per-year police job.
She was unaware at that point that McGowan was the source of the original whistleblower tip received by La Vergne Mayor Jason Cole’s office.
But while he had dished freely on his colleagues’ sexcapades, McGowan did not disclose his own romps with Hall and later denied them. He was fired for being dishonest with the inquiry.
‘Do we have a jealous boyfriend kind of complex happening somewhere in the City and this is how it came to me? Like has any of these men found out ‘well, I found out she’s with all these other people, so, now I’m pissed?” Patton asked her.
‘I mean … yeah … I have no idea,’ Hall replied, struggling to answer. She later reflected: ‘I got stupid, I got desperate, I guess and guys are guys and they’ll stick their di** in anything.’