Former Lewisville police officer arrested on 8 charges of sexual assault of child
A former Lewisville police officer is facing multiple allegations of sexual assault of a child.
Bryan Preston Gibbins, of Denton, was booked into the Denton County Jail on Wednesday and is facing eight counts of sexual assault of a child. Bonds were set at $500,000 on each charge, for a total bond of $4 million, according to Denton County Jail records.
Further details of the allegations weren’t immediately available.
Gibbins is a former officer with the Lewisville Police Department who began working there in 2006 and who was fired from the department in 2019, according to Lewisville police Capt. Christopher Butterworth.
Officials with the Denton County Sheriff’s Department are investigating the child abuse allegations, said Stacy Turkoly, department spokeswoman.
The Lewisville Chamber of Commerce awarded a Bryan Gibbins with their first ever First Responder of the Year award in March, according to a Facebook post.
Gibbins was fired from the Lewisville Police Department this past summer after an investigation into an off-duty incident, Butterworth said.
Gibbins was last assigned to the Crimes Against Persons Section in the Lewisville department’s Criminal Investigations Division, a Lewisville Police Department news release said.
The investigation that led to Gibbins’ termination documented multiple policy violations — including attempts to deceive the investigators, according to the release
When the department learned of possible criminal activity related to the incident, Lewisville Police Chief Kevin Deaver asked the Denton County Sheriff’s Office to investigate.
“For transparency, it is important to have a neutral law enforcement agency look into criminal allegations when an employee or former employee is involved,” Deaver said. “It is important for the public to know that, if these allegations are true, they do not reflect the vast majority of the fine men and women who honorably serve this community on a daily basis.”
This story was originally published January 30, 2020 at 2:43 PM.
