An ugly case of police misconduct that's shaken a village began with an inept traffic stop.

Police Lt. Ricky Dominguez of Bosque Farms, population 4,160, pulled over a woman for speeding the night of Sept. 23. He asked her personal questions that had no relevance to her driving, including whether she had a child.

Dominguez, 41, ended up writing the 21-year-old motorist a ticket. But the lieutenant failed to list how fast she was driving or what the posted speed limit was.

She phoned him the next day to point out those deficiencies in her citation. Dominguez quickly voided the ticket.

This did not end Dominguez's pursuit of a woman who'd supposedly broken a speeding law in his presence. He began phoning and texting her daily. His casual inquiries about how she was doing expanded to conv

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