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MUSKOGEE — A former small-town police chief told a federal judge Wednesday that his rape of a female motorist had cost him his job, his home and his marriage.

The judge decided that wasn't enough and sentenced Coke Douglas Makerney to eight years in prison.

U.S. District Judge Ronald A. White disregarded as "absurd” a defense request to put Makerney on probation with electronic monitoring.

Makerney, 48, was police chief in the Choctaw County town of Sawyer from 2003 until June 2007, when town officials learned of the rape allegation. He initially was suspended, but resigned a few days later.

He was Sawyer's first police chief, town officials had said of him previously.

"The defendant disgraced the badge he wore and trashed the oath he had sworn to faithfully uphold the law,” U.S. Attorney Sheldon Sperling said after the sentencing.

Makerney pulled over the woman for a traffic stop on U.S. 70 on May 25, 2007. When another officer arrived on the scene, Makerney told him to go look for a brown vehicle that he said had been following the woman.

Sperling said that was a ruse that let Makerney assault the motorist outside her car.

"The court agreed that this was a rape,” Sperling said.

Makerney pleaded for leniency. The former police chief's defense attorney asked for a departure from federal sentencing guidelines, which called for prison time, Sperling said.

Instead, White imposed an eight-year prison term without the possibility of parole.

Makerney will be on probation for three years after prison.

The victim, a mother of two in her 30s, attended Wednesday's hearing and told prosecutors afterward she was "gratified and relieved” by Makerney's sentence, Sperling said.