An ex-cop fired as an investigator at the U.S. Center for SafeSport for allegedly stealing money seized at a drug bust has been arrested again, this time charged with rape and sex trafficking. Jason Krasley, a former police officer in Allentown, Pa., was charged with felony rape and involuntary sexual servitude for crimes allegedly committed while he was on the force between 2011 and 2015, the Associated Press reports. Krasley left the department in 2021 and went to work for the SafeSport Center, which fired him last year shortly after learning he’d been arrested for allegedly stealing $5,500 from a drug bust he helped conduct while on the force. The new arrest raises the question of how Krasley was able to maneuver through what officials at the center say is a robust vetting process it uses to hire people tasked with uncovering sensitive information regarding sex-abuse cases.
The Denver-based center was established in 2017 to deal with sex-abuse cases in Olympic sports from the elite level down to the grassroots. As of late last year, it had 36 people on its investigation team; it has tapped into police forces, where some detectives deal with similar cases, to fill some of those positions. “I am appalled that a former staff member has been accused of such heinous acts in his previous role as a police officer,” said SafeSport CEO Ju’Riese Colon. “We hold all staff to the highest standard because safeguarding athletes is our utmost priority.” The AP has learned of two cases Krasley handled — one of which was assigned to another investigator after his arrest on the theft charges. In the other, the claimant asked if her case could be reopened in view of the arrest and was told in an email from a SafeSport employee that “those matters were already being reviewed prior to the requests and media attention.”
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