As he awaits trial on charges alleging he pressured four detained women into sex acts, suspended police officer Mark Icker has agreed to plead guilty to federal deprivation-of-rights charges, according to a plea agreement filed in court this week.
Federal prosecutors Wednesday filed a felony information charging Icker, 30, of Dickson City, with two counts of deprivation of rights under color of law. A plea agreement says the parties have agreed on a sentence of 12 years in prison, subject to a federal judge’s approval.
The charges identify two victims who allege Icker used a dangerous weapon to coerce them into “unwanted sexual contact” in December 2018, while he was employed as a police officer in Ashley. The victims identified in the federal complaint are two of the same women from the previous state charges.
The charges said Icker’s conduct deprived the women of their due-process rights and the “right to bodily integrity.”
According to a plea agreement Icker signed earlier this month, the maximum penalty for the offenses is a combined 20 years in prison and a $500,000 fine.
The plea agreement — which also notes Icker’s “relevant conduct” included the other two victims — says the defense and the U.S. attorney’s office have agreed to jointly recommend a 12-year prison sentence when Icker faces a judge.
Icker is scheduled to enter his plea next week before U.S. District Judge Malachy E. Mannion, but a sentencing date was not immediately set.
According to the state charges, Icker, while working as a patrolman in Ashley, pressured two women into performing oral sex on him to avoid arrest, and pulled down a third woman’s shirt and groped her after stopping her for driving under the influence.
In a fourth case that took place while he was on duty in Sugar Notch, Icker pulled over a woman who was driving a carload of children to Chuck E. Cheese and demanded oral sex from her, according to prosecutors.
In addition to the four Luzerne County cases, Icker is charged with inappropriately touching a handcuffed woman while he was on duty in Jessup.
Luzerne County District Attorney Stefanie Salavantis did not immediately return a message seeking comment on whether her office would continue to pursue the state cases against Icker.
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