A third woman has come forward to accuse former Charlotte-Mecklenburg police officer Marcus Jackson of sexually assaulting her during a bogus traffic stop.

CMPD Chief Rodney Monroe said Jackson stopped the latest victim on Nov. 2 and fondled her during an unlawful search. He again stopped the woman on Dec. 29 and again fondled her, Monroe said.

During the second stop, according to CMPD, a male companion tried to intervene by challenging the traffic stop, and then tried to call 911. Jackson interrupted the emergency call, Monroe said, and unlawfully arrested the man for obstructing and delaying a police officer. Those charges have since been dropped, and the man has been released from jail.

At a news conference Tuesday, Monroe said Jackson, 25, should never have been hired in 2008 because of a 2005 domestic violence incident, the Charlotte Observer reported today.

Monroe did not explain how the department's background checks missed a 2005 complaint and restraining order granted by a judge in that case. Monroe called it “not very efficient work."

The Observer also reported, based on information obtained from a police source, that Jackson was twice recommended for suspensions over incidents that occurred before the alleged attacks on the women. One incident involved allegations that Jackson was speeding, the newspaper reported the source as saying, and the other involved allegations that he broke into his estranged wife's apartment.

Meanwhile, Mecklenburg prosecutors have said they may have to dismiss more than 50 criminal and traffic cases that Jackson was involved in.

In the two previous cases, Jackson is accused of assaulting to young women in his patrol car late last year.

In one case, a 17-year-old girl said told investigators that Jackson stopped her on Dec. 18. During that traffic stop, she said, Jackson forced her into his car, drove to another location and committed sex acts.

A relative of the girl called police to report the alleged incident.

As detectives were investigating that case, Monroe has said, a 21-year-old woman came forward to say that she, too, had been sexually assaulted by Jackson during a traffic stop.

Jackson was fired last week and immediately arrested, charged with three counts of sexual battery, second-degree sex offense, extortion, kidnapping, indecent exposure and two counts of felonious restraint.

In the third reported case, he was charged with two counts of sexual battery, one count of felonious restraint and one count of interfering with an emergency communication, police said.

As of early Wednesday Jackson was still in jail.

Police are asking that anyone who may have been assaulted by Jackson to call detective Mike Melendez at 704-353-0560.

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