Corpus Christi Police Officer Robert Lee McChester ‘The Molester’ Back in Jail After Bond Revoked

Robert Lee McChester Pleaded Guilty to Molesting 14-Year-Old Girl

Corpus Christi, Texas

A former Corpus Christi police officer who was arrested back in April for molesting a 14-year-old girl is back in jail, after his bond was revoked.

Robert Lee McChester Jr., 27, will be staying put this time around at the Aransas County Jail until an Aug. 30 sentencing hearing. The officer pleaded guilty last week to charges of using the Internet to sexually entice a minor.

McChester was arrested Friday on a warrant stating he perjured himself during a hearing the day before.

During the Thursday hearing, McChester answered questions about investigator’s findings, including nearly a dozen driver’s licenses found at his home.

McChester said he had obtained the licenses in 2007, while working as a doorman for a local nightclub.

Police investigators later discovered two of the licenses were issued in 2010, while a third was issued in 2011.

Senior Officer Christopher Lynch, an investigator with the Police Department’s Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force, testified Monday he was able to reach two of the people whose licenses were found.

One woman told Lynch an officer matching McChester’s description took her license before letting her go in May 2011 during an early-morning traffic stop.

Another man said his license was confiscated by an officer matching a description of McChester during an April 2010 traffic stop in which he also was released, Lynch said.

Corpus Christi police records list McChester as the officer who made those stops, Lynch testified.

McChester exchanged sexually-charged messages online with a 14-year-old girl for about a year and met her for sex nearly half a dozen times before the teen made an outcry April 3 at a Corpus Christi hospital, according to a federal affidavit.

The girl said their ongoing relationship began when she met McChester while she was a freshman at Tuloso-Midway High School, where McChester worked as a security officer, according to court records.

McChester was arrested April 10 following the filing of a criminal complaint and resigned from the Police Department the next day. He faces 10 years to life in prison.