New charges are being held for court against a former Marysville police officer who
and is serving a 10- to 26-year sentence in Albion state prison.
, 42, waived formal arraignment in his hearing Monday. The new charges against him stem from an accusation that he had illegal sexual contact with a 14-year-old Marysville girl and attempted to have her give false testimony in his previous case. The prosecution says that the incident took place during the same time period as Pavlovich's
, but involve a different victim.
The alleged victim, now 23, testified that Pavlovich first contacted her in 2001 while she waited at a bus stop with her sister and continued to have inappropriate sexual contact with her over a period of about three years and on at least 30 separate occasions, sometimes while he was on duty and driving a marked Marysville police car. She said she reported the incidents in 2009 after receiving a phone call from Pavlovich in which he asked about her husband and tried to encourage her to give false testimony on his behalf in his case.
The new charges include aggravated indecent assault, indecent assault, unlawful contact with a minor, corruption of minors and one count of intimidation of witnesses of victims.