SLIDELL, La. (WVUE) – A New Orleans-area doctor was arrested Wednesday (Oct. 30) after being accused of sex crimes by at least two patients, the St. Tammany Parish Sheriff’s Office said.

Dr. Keith Hickey was charged with sexual assault, attempted sexual assault, assault and simple assault, the agency said.

State medical directories list Hickey, 63, as a cardiologist practicing primarily in Slidell.

The St. Tammany Sheriff’s Office said Hickey is a New Orleans resident, and an online biography said he graduated from the LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans College of Medicine and completed a residency at the Medical Center from Duke University in Durham, North Carolina.

The STPSO said it began investigating Hickey in May after a woman reported that her doctor had “touched her inappropriately” during one of her appointments. The woman told detectives that Hickey told her to undress and then “began touching her breast and vaginal area while making inappropriate comments,” the agency said.

During the course of that investigation, STPSO said a second woman came forward to report a similar incident with the same doctor.

That woman told detectives that Hickey “made sexual advances toward her while trying to pull down her pants and put her hands on her shirt” during a doctor’s appointment, the agency said. The office said both alleged crimes were committed in St. Tammany Parish.

An arrest warrant was obtained for Hickey on Wednesday, the STPSO said, and the doctor was taken into custody and booked into the St. Tammany Parish Correctional Center.

The sheriff’s office said its investigation is ongoing and anyone else who believes they were a victim of Hickey is asked to contact investigators at (985) 898-2341.

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