A reserve police officer from Waterloo will not be charged in connection with a weekend scuffle at a Des Moines hotel that involved a woman he planned to pay for sex, according to a police report.

Steven Swanson, 41, told officers he was at the Quality Inn and Suites, 929 Third St., to meet a woman he contacted through Craigs-list, an online classifieds Web site that has become popular with prostitutes and their customers, authorities said.

A hotel manager called police after Swanson and the woman allegedly fought in a fourth-floor hallway at about 1:45 p.m. Saturday. Swanson said he tried to wrestle away the woman's cell phone when he thought she was going to call her pimp, the police report said.

The woman's name was blacked out in the report.

When police asked Swanson for his identification, he allegedly laid his driver's license on the table, put his Waterloo police identification next to it and said: "And this is the one that will hurt."

A Waterloo police official told Des Moines officers that Swanson had been on duty until 1 a.m. Saturday.

The woman told police that she met Swanson at the Lumberyard, a strip club on the north side of Des Moines, where she works. She asked Swanson "to come to the hotel to hang out," the report said.

The woman denied that she solicited via Craigslist. She told police that Swanson was upset with her because she "just wanted to hang out."

"The female denied being a prostitute, so there was no way to prove it in a court of law," Des Moines Police Sgt. Lori Lavorato said.

Swanson suffered an abrasion and a torn shirt in the scuffle. No charges were filed. Both were photographed and released.

Waterloo police Capt. John Beckman said that he was not aware of the alleged incident and that department officials would be "looking into it."

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