Fired Nashville officer enters “best interest” plea after allegedly playing role in OnlyFans video during fake traffic stop

Sean Herman / Metropolitan Nashville Police Department via CBS News

A former Nashville police officer has been sentenced to probation on a charge of felony official misconduct after law enforcement officials say he allegedly participated in an adult video while on duty.

According to court documents filed Thursday, Sean Herman entered a “best interest” plea in Nashville criminal court for one count. A second count was dismissed.

Herman, 35, faces one year of supervised probation. The best interest plea means that a defendant pleads guilty while maintaining factual innocence of the crime.

Additionally, he was granted judicial diversion, which means that certain eligible defendants who successfully finish probation under the judge’s conditions will have their cases dismissed. They can also then request that charges be expunged from their record.

According to the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department, Herman was fired in May 2024 after detectives with the Specialized Investigations Division discovered the video and identified him while wearing his MNPD uniform. He was arrested and charged with the two counts that June.

Officials say Herman can be seen taking part in a mock traffic stop in the video that was posted on OnlyFans, a site where fans pay creators for their photos and videos.

The video, titled “Can’t believe he didn’t arrest me,” showed a woman, identified on OnlyFans as Jordin, exposing her breasts to a uniformed officer who then groped her, CBS affiliate WTVF reported. The officer’s face wasn’t visible in the footage, but investigators determined it was Herman, the station reported.

An MNPD press release says that the video was made on April 26, 2024, in a warehouse parking lot while Herman was on duty as a patrol officer.

“That was one of the most outrageous, disrespectful acts that a person here could do and by disrespectful, I mean to all the MNPD employees and this agency,” police spokesperson Don Aaron said in 2024, according to WTVF.

In August 2024, a state board indefinitely suspended Herman of his certification to be a law enforcement officer in Tennessee, with the understanding that he could argue to be reinstated once the criminal case is closed.

Phone and email messages left with an attorney listed for Herman were not immediately returned on Friday.