'Other' Officer Takes Stand in Sun Spa Sex Case

6 P.M.:

A suspended Beaumont police officer who hadn't spoken publicly about the Sun Spa sex case, testifed today in court.

Lieutenant David Kiker testified in Judge Gary Sanderson's courtroom in a hearing involving a co-worker.

Kiker and Detective Keith Breiner were indefinitely suspended without pay after Breiner admitted to engaging in sex acts during an undercover operation into two West end spas.

He claims supervising officers knew of the actions, and approved them and he's suing to keep his job, claiming his constitutional rights were violated by his suspension.

Beaumont Police Chief Frank Coffin says the department would never approve of such conduct.

Kiker told attorneys that Breiner asked him several times to join the operation, and he declined, before he finally accepted when asked by the lieutenant overseeing the investigation.

Kiker said he was under the impression the lieutenant knew he would have sex with the prostitutes, but he never cleared his involvement with his superior officer.

Chief Frank Coffin also testified for the second time.

And City Manager Kyle Hayes testified about the collective bargaining agreement.

The city claims the agreement requires that a grievance process be followed before the case can be heard in court.

Testimony will continue Monday morning in Judge Sanderson's courtroom.

Early Afternoon Update:

A Beaumont police officer has broken his silence in the Sun Spa sex investigation.

  Lt. David Kiker took the witness stand Friday afternoon in a hearing to determine if a judge will issue an injunction to allow Det. Keith Breiner to keep his job while he fights his suspension.

  Police Chief Frank Coffin indefinitely suspended Kiker and Breiner in July, after Breiner admitted engaging in sex as part of an undercover investigation into the Sun Spa and the V.I.P Spa in west Beaumont.

  Investigators say Kiker also engaged in sex acts as part of the investigation.

 Breiner is asking Judge Gary Sanderson to let him keep his job until a jury can hear his case.

Breiner says supervising officers knew he and another officer engaged in sex acts with prostitutes during an undercover investigation into the two spas, and he claims the suspension violates his constitutional rights.

He says supervisors approved of their actions.

But Chief Frank Coffin says the department would never approve that kind of conduct, and he says it was a discredit to the department.

Lt. Kiker testified he was not ordered to have sex as part of the investigation, but it was his impression supervisors wanted that to happen. 

The hearing will resume Monday.

 Watch KFDM News for the latest on the hearing.