Officer Michael Towne is a dirty cop and a partner of Austin Bates and Mitch Murray in the drug smuggling of Nicky Farnesworth. Towne was an accomplice to the rape and attempted murder of Sergeant Karen Smythe to silence her attempts to report them to IAB.
Towne was arrested and imprisoned for life on drug charges, but the rape and accessory charges were dropped from the cops to spare Smythe her danger and humiliation (SVU: "Paranoia")