The former assistant police chief at UNC School of the Arts has been charged with misdemeanor sexual battery, court records show.
An agent in the State Bureau of Investigation accused Walter Lee Faye Jr., 48, of 7675 Stonewall Lane in Tobaccoville of engaging in sexual contact with a female co-worker, an arrest warrant says. The incident is alleged to have occurred on Aug. 14, 2009, and the woman did not consent to the contact.
Faye turned himself in Wednesday at the Forsyth County Magistrate Office, said Jennifer Canada, a spokeswoman for the N.C. Attorney General's Office.
Canada said that UNCSA's police chief, Deb Cheesebro, asked the State Bureau of Investigation on Aug. 17, 2009, to investigate Faye. She didn't say why the SBI took seven months to charge him.
Faye worked in the campus police department for nearly 18 years, said Marla Carpenter, a university spokeswoman. His annual salary was $64,116.
As of Sept. 1, 2009, he no longer worked for the university. Citing state personnel laws, Carpenter declined to say whether he was fired or quit.
Faye was released from the Forsyth County Jail on a bond of $1,500. He is scheduled to appear in court April 12.
According to a court record, a magistrate ordered him to stay away from the university and not to contact the victim.
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