A former Pittsburgh police officer admitted Monday to coercing sexual favors from women while on duty, earning him a prison sentence and a spot on the sex-offender registry.

Adam Skweres, 35, of Lincoln Place, a police officer from February 2007 until March 2012, was sentenced by Common Pleas Judge David R. Cashman to 3½ to 8 years in prison, followed by 10 years of probation, and was escorted from the courtroom in handcuffs by a sheriff's deputy.

Skweres must register for life as a Megan's Law offender. He pleaded guilty to 26 counts, including attempted rape, indecent assault, false imprisonment, bribery, official oppression and criminal coercion.

“I am guilty, your honor,” Skweres told Cashman when the judge asked why he decided to enter a plea.

Skweres' attorney Phil DiLucente said his client pleaded guilty because the alternative was “almost a life sentence.” If a jury found him guilty on all counts, his sentence could have totaled 86½ to 173 years, Cashman said.

“The risk of running this case to trial was just too great,” DiLucente said.

The district attorney's office declined to comment.

Skweres received no special treatment as a former police officer and the sentence is within guidelines, DiLucente said.

Police charged Skweres, who worked out of the city's Zone 3 station in Allentown, in February 2012. Five women came forward, saying he coerced them into performing sexual favors. Two of the victims attended Skweres' sentencing but did not comment afterward.

The Tribune-Review does not name accusers in sexual assault cases.

One woman told the Office of Municipal Investigations, which looks into allegations of misconduct among city employees, that Skweres said he could write a positive letter or a negative letter to the county's Office of Children, Youth and Families based on whether she would perform a sex act, according to a criminal complaint.

Another woman said Skweres solicited a sexual favor by saying he could make the paperwork related to a South Side traffic crash “mysteriously disappear.”

In separate incidents, two women told police that Skweres demanded sexual favors in exchange for helping their jailed boyfriends.

A fifth woman told detectives that Skweres refused to leave her house unless she stripped and performed sexual favors, and threatened her nursing career if she didn't, according to a complaint. The woman told police she didn't tell anyone what happened until she befriended a city officer, who after Skweres was arrested told her to come forward.

DiLucente said two of the women indicated they plan to file civil lawsuits.

The city fired Skweres, who had been on house arrest since charges were filed.

DiLucente said Skweres has “great concern” for his safety in prison and likely will request to be isolated from other inmates.

Adam Brandolph is a staff writer for Trib Total Media.

---

Copyright ©2025— Trib Total Media, LLC (TribLIVE.com)

---