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PORTLAND, Oregon - The Silverton police officer who shot and killed an Irish citizen while responding to a burglary complaint last month has been jailed on accusations he sexually abused a girl, Marion County authorities said.
Officer Tony Gonzalez, 35, was arrested Sunday and is being held without bail on multiple counts of sexual abuse, Deputy District Attorney Matt Kemmy said.
Kemmy said the shooting and the alleged sex abuse are not believed to be related.
Kemmy said a woman and her daughter in Keizer, 19 kilometres west of Silverton, reported the abuse Saturday. Gonzalez was arrested without incident.
Kemmy declined to say when the alleged abuse occurred or release any information about the victim. Gonzalez is scheduled to be arraigned Tuesday.
He is on administrative leave from the police department pending the outcome of an investigation into the fatal shooting of Andrew Hanlon, a 20-year-old Irishman who died June 30.
The district attorney's office has released few details about its investigation into Hanlon's death, which has generated wide publicity and outrage in Ireland.
Hanlon came to the United States from Ireland last summer and stayed illegally after his visa expired.
His brother-in-law, Nathan Heise, said Hanlon had been struggling with recent bouts of paranoia and delusion, but said he doesn't think Hanlon would have posed a threat.
Hanlon's sister and brother-in-law live in Silverton, a 7,000-resident town about 72 kilometres south of Portland.
Hanlon's family declined to comment about the officer's arrest.
"As much as we would like to comment, we can't right now on advice of our attorney," Hanlon's brother in law, Nathan Heise, told The Oregonian newspaper.
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