A former West Palm Beach Police officer who was on the job for only six months is facing charges of false imprisonment and battery stemming from a traffic stop earlier this year that led to his termination.
Justice Feeley-Carim, 30, while working a shift on March 26 allegedly told a woman to touch him sexually during an interaction with her and her friend in the parking lot of a Walmart in West Palm Beach, according to a probable cause affidavit.
Feeley-Carim used his marked patrol car to block in the car the 38-year-old woman and her friend, a man, were sitting inside of, smoking marijuana and drinking. The officer did not identify himself, ask the woman or her friend for their information, turn on his body-worn camera or check their license plates in law enforcement databases. He walked to the passenger side of the car where the woman was sitting, opened the door and asked what they were doing, the affidavit said.
After the officer told the woman and her friend to get out of the car, Feeley-Carim “told her she was ‘pretty’ and ‘looked beautiful’ and asked her if she wanted to have sex,” the affidavit said.
“When she told him no, the (officer) told her ‘Well just touch it, … just touch it for a second,’” the affidavit alleged.
The woman told investigators that she complied with Feeley-Carim’s request because she was afraid she would be arrested if she did not, according to the affidavit. Afterward, the officer reversed his car enough to allow the man to drive away in his own car but remained blocking the woman’s car from leaving.
Feeley-Carim allegedly told the woman to tell her friend to leave “before it gets worse,” she told investigators, according to the affidavit. The officer kept his car blocking hers for more than a minute before moving it.
The woman reported the interaction 13 days later, the police department said in a news release Tuesday morning.
Investigators determined Feeley-Carim was the officer in the interaction based on department overtime detail records and vehicle location information, the affidavit said. The woman picked him out of a photo lineup.
Feeley-Carim, hired in September 2024, was placed on leave the day the woman reported the encounter, the department’s news release said. He was terminated on April 16, within his 12-month probationary period.
He turned himself into the Palm Beach County jail late Saturday night, the police department said.
A judge set his bond at $200,000 on Sunday, court records show. He remains in the jail as of Tuesday afternoon.
