An Oklahoma City police officer who was charged last week with raping or sexually assaulting at least eight civilian women while on patrol was released from jail after posting $500,000 bond Friday.

Daniel Holtzclaw, 27, is a three-year veteran of the Oklahoma City police force. He was arrested mid-August and has since been charged with 16 counts consisting of burglary and sexual assault including two counts of first-degree rape and sexual battery, according to court records as reported by Oklahoma City Fox News.

Holtzclaw’s bail was $5 million cash, but it was reduced to $500,000 after a Wednesday afternoon hearing, as reported by the Oklahoma City Fox News. Holtzclaw was released after posting bond, said a deputy at the jail.

Holtzclaw is now under house arrest and fitted with a GPS and has turned in all weapons or gear that was issued to him.

Oklahoma Police Chief Bill Citty said the day of his arrest Holtzclaw had stopped the women at traffic lights and as they walked through neighborhoods and threatened them with arrest. The women were all black and between the ages of 34 to 58. The incidents took place between February and June, all along Holtzclaw’s patrol route, which encompassed Lincoln Boulevard to Interstate 35 and NE 14 to NE 50.

He forced them to expose themselves and fondled them, and raped them in at least two cases. The incidents happened in his car at the same place he stopped them in at least three cases, and in one case the woman was taken to a nearby school.

Holtzclaw has pled not guilty. His preliminary hearing is set for Sept. 18.

Holtzclaw was one of the officers named in the wrongful-death lawsuit of Clifton Armstrong in January, as was Police Chief Bill Citty.