Former D.C. Cop — Honored for Service at J6 Protest — Indicted for Drugging, Raping Ladies

A grand jury in Alexandria, Virginia, has indicted former cop Timothy Valentin in Washington, D.C. — honored for his role protecting the U.S. Capitol during the mostly peaceful protest on January 6, 2021 — in myriad rapes and other sex crimes.

The superseding more than three-dozen count indictment, which replaces and adds to previous charges, alleges that Valentin drugged, raped, and sodomized more than a dozen women.

In October 2021, the city’s Metropolitan Police Department honored Valentin and many others with a ribbon of valor for the Capitol defense.

Dating Apps Used

Just before authorities announced the new indictment, The Atlantic took a break from bashing President Trump and detailed how Valentin went about his business.

“Timothy Valentin found his dates the way so many people find each other nowadays: Hinge. Plenty of Fish. Bumble. Match.com,” the magazine reported:

He had a profile you might swipe right on some dull Tuesday night — well groomed, fit, and happy to meet in a reassuringly public place, like the neighborhood bar. Nothing heavy, nothing untoward. In person, he told tales of his work with the FBI. He was professional, even reassuring, and gentlemanly, insistent on buying the drinks.

Except Valentin would then offer just one more drink and drug his dates senseless, officials familiar with a widening investigation into his behavior claim. As the women drifted into oblivion, they have alleged to cops, he would help them into his car with an offer to grab a nightcap, then film himself raping them. He left little trace: His victims rarely had any recollection of what had happened, officials claim. They simply thought that they had met a nice man in a crowded, public place and drank more than they should have.

In April, a victim reported to police that Valentin drugged and raped her after awaking “with the conviction that something was wrong,” the magazine reported, citing court documents. 

Alexandria cops arrested Valentin in December, and “uncovered a huge amount of evidence — digital records, personal effects, and testimony — that suggests that Valentin may have carried out similar crimes across the mid-Atlantic.”

NBC4 in Washington, D.C., offered more details from a court document. “At a bond hearing, prosecutors told the judge Valentin is accused of taking the victim to O’Connell’s in Old Town, where both drank heavily,” the station reported:

According to the document, when the victim returned from the bathroom, she saw Valentin stirring something into her drink. She later passed out in his car. The woman told police she woke to him raping and sodomizing her.

Urine testing of the victim showed the presence of bromazolam, a sedative, in her system.

The drug is more than a “sedative.” It is a “a novel designer benzodiazepine (NBD) [that] exhibits potent sedative, hypnotic and anxiolytic effects, raising concerns regarding its potential for misuse and fatal outcomes, particularly when combined with opioids such as fentanyl,” the Addiction journal reported. As well, “there was a surge in bromazolam-related deaths during 2023 in San Francisco.”

Cops who searched Valentin’s car, the station reported, found supplies that suggest he was pro: “a law enforcement badge, a gun, prescription receipts, condoms and two sandwich bags with a white, powdery substance.”

He recorded “dozens” of sex acts with “intoxicated or incapacitated” women.

Indictment

Alexandria cops detailed more than 37 charges in the first and superseding indictments:

• • four counts  — rape by force;
• • four counts — rape by incapacitation;
• • two counts — adulteration;
• • two counts — sodomy;
• • two counts — abduction with intent to defile;
• • one count  — aggravated sexual battery by incapacitation;
• • two counts — sodomy by force or incapacitation; and,
• • 15 counts — unlawful filming.

In December, Valentin was indicted for these crimes against one victim:

• • two counts  — rape;
• • forcible sodomy;
• • abduction with intent to defile; and,
• • alteration of food or drink.

J6 Hero

At the Metropolitan Police Department’s annual awards ceremony on October 18, 2021, Valentin received a ribbon of valor.

In April 2021, Acting Chief of Police Robert J. Contee, III authorized the ribbon for city cops and others who supported the city’s “response to the attack [on] the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021,” the award program said. 

The program describes the day’s events as if the cops were akin to the Texans and Tennesseans who faced Santa Anna at the siege of the Alamo:

On that day, the violent mob’s sustained assault precipitated an unprecedented need for first responders, including an urgent request for the Metropolitan Police Department to aid in the defense of the Capitol. Without hesitation, hundreds of MPD officers responded to restore order and defend our country’s democratic process. They were confronted by a mob intent on destruction, containing many who sought to harm law enforcement officers. MPD members did not retreat, and though outnumbered, exhausted, and injured, they remained determined and spent hours fending off the attackers without reluctance.

The program does not detail what any officer did that day.

Valentin and other cops are also honored in a plaque installed in the U.S. Capitol early this morning. The plaque does not name officers but instead lists the city’s and area’s departments that were at the scene.

Valentin quit the force in 2022 after five years.