A veteran St. Louis law enforcement officer still has a license to police, despite being under intense investigation over growing reports he has an extensive history of drugging and raping female victims.

Steve Blakeney quickly rose through the ranks of the Pine Lawn police department, joining the force in 2009 and climbing to the rank of commander by the time he left in late 2014. Theoretically, his law enforcement license still allows him to be hired by another department.

Fox2Now.com reports as quickly as the promotions came, so too did the allegations of abuse. According to the station, the claims against Blakeney span nearly a decade and stretch all the way from St. Louis to the suburb of St. Charles.

In one September 2014 incident, Billy Baker claims he observed Blakeney parked in an unmarked car outside an area bowling alley around 3 a.m. ready "to prey on women that he thought were drunk."

Baker added of the three women he had been entrusted to take home that night that "he wanted them to get in the car." When he intervened, Baker said the officer "punched me in the face."

Eventually, cops were able to track down the vehicle and tie it to Blakeney after Baker was able to give them the license plate number. When cops interviewed him, Blakeney's story vastly differed from that of other witnesses, but within months he was fired by the department after several other women claimed that same year they awoke to find themselves "in his home and couldn't remember how they got there."

Blakeney was also accused by a 21-year-old woman of "forcible rape" in 2012; and as far back as 2006, TheFreeThought.com reports an 18-year-old female claimed he gave her a pill and she awoke to find his "hands down her pants" while on the stage at a bar he then managed.

In the past, the St. Charles County Police Department has investigated Blakeney, but he has never been criminally charged. Fox adds Blakeney has denied all the charges, but, when pressed for explanations, emailed the station a cease and desist order.

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