A Dallas police officer who was investigated multiple times during his four years on the force turned himself in on a misdemeanor charge of discharging a body-worn camera without permission.

Officer Ali Toppa, 28, was taken into custody Thursday by Irving police and booked into the jail on a Dallas warrant, Dallas police said in a news release. His bail was set at $500. It was not immediately clear if he had already posted bond. Robert Rogers, Toppa’s attorney, declined to comment.

Toppa is assigned to DPD’s Northwest Patrol Division. He is on paid administrative leave while it is investigated, officials said.

Dallas police officials did not provide any additional information about the charge.

Records obtained by The Dallas Morning News shows Toppa has been the subject of previous internal investigations into several allegations of misconduct since joining the force in September 2020.

He was penalized with a supervisors’ report in 2021 after police officials determined he was inappropriate and escalated a situation in which he loudly called someone “stupid” while responding to a call about a parking complaint , records show.

He was also charged in 2022 with conduct that brought the department into disrepute and violating the department’s body-worn camera policies, both of which were sustained, records show.

In that incident, Toppa was accused of taking a woman to her motel room after responding to a call for service that her vehicle had been stolen.

He then made “unwanted physical advances” toward her in her room, according to internal police files. He disabled his camera after they arrived at the motel, police officials wrote in the records.

The department investigated the case as a possible formal criminal charge of oppression, but could not establish probable cause because the woman and Toppa “gave conflicting statements and there was no evidence or independent witness to corroborate any of their statements,” a a Dallas police investigator wrote in the records.

Toppa told investigators he turned off his camera because “there was no more evidence that needed to be recorded,” records show.

He said she didn’t deny him entry to the room and told him she looked good for her age because he wanted to “help her feel better about herself and the situation,” according to the records. He denied many of the allegations and said he “left the room alone because he felt it was time,” records show.

He was given a three-day suspension for that case by Deputy Chief Michael Igo, who is now Dallas’ acting police chief, according to records. Igo declined to comment on the decision Thursday night, saying he would have to review the case again.

Toppa faced a new charge in March 2023 of conduct that brought the department into disrepute after a woman accused him of assault while they were intimate at a hotel, records show. The case was also criminally investigated, but investigators told the woman she would have to report it to the city of Trophy Club, where the alleged crime took place. The woman said she did not want to report it to another officer, according to records.

The status of that case was not immediately clear Thursday.