Thursday, April 19, 2018

It's happened again! CHP officer under criminal investigation for sexually assaulting woman twice while on duty

History repeats itself with a lone-wolf CHP officer who sexually assaults a woman by the side of a highway
Here we go again! There is yet another bad CHP cop accused of a committing serious crimes while on duty in the tacky brown clown uniform.

The victim, Ruth Chavez, with her lawyer at a press conference, accusing yet

A CHP officer in Orange County is accused of sexually assaulting a Latino woman, who was merely a passenger in a car driven by her husband, which was stopped on a routine traffic stop by the side of a highway in Santa Ana, California.

The officer in question, whose name has yet to be released publicly, is then alleged to have followed the victim, Ruth Chavez, to her home, two hours after the incident, where he is alleged to have sexually assaulted the victim again.

The first alleged sexual assault by the officer occurred around 5:30 p.m. on April 6, 2018 in the southbound direction of the Interstate 5 freeway near Redhill Avenue in Santa Ana, California.


Chavez, who was a passenger in her husband's car, claimed that her husband was pulled over for having expired tags and cited by the CHP officer in question for driving with an expired license plate.

Unlike real cops, the CHP never get held accountable for their own actions because
they patrol alone without partners and don't wear body cameras to review to allow
superiors to review their actions
The officer is then alleged to have ordered Chavez, who was sitting in the passenger seat at the time and doing nothing wrong, out of the car and to walk to the back of the vehicle, while her husband stayed inside.

The officer then is alleged to have sexually assault the woman by the side of the highway.

“They were stopped on the side of the road, and the police officer requested that Ms. Chavez exit her car and proceed to the back of the car where she was inappropriately, sexually groped ,” says Juan J. Dominguez, the woman’s attorney.

A few hours later, the same creepy CHP officer is accused of stalking the victim in question by showing up at Chavez's apartment complex, the South Coast Villas on MacArthur Blvd. near Bristol St. in Santa Ana, California.

He then ordered her to meet him outside in the parking lot. The officer then sexually assaulted the victim again by his SUV patrol car.

“He positions his patrol car inside of a parking lot and opens the two doors, of his SUV patrol car, and positions her between the two doors and again proceeds to grope [her],” says Dominguez.


The officer only stopped the sexual assault when he was suddenly startled by a neighbor who was passing by the parking lot. It was at this time he left, but not before saying he'd be back in a week's time.


The CHP officer was apparently caught by a surveillance camera at the Santa Ana apartment complex and possibly by his own vehicle's on dash microphone. Chavez's attorney claimed the CHP and Santa Ana Police Department took possession of the surveillance video from the apartment complex that potentially captured the crime on video.
Dominguez said that the officer communicated with Chavez, who does not speak English, using a translation website.



Chavez reported the sexual assault to the Santa Ana police the next day, where an investigation of the incident is ongoing. The CHP issued a statement Wednesday from Captain Shackleford after the story broke today:
The CHP is aware of an investigation involving one of its officers by the Santa Ana Police Department for alleged behavior that occurred while the employee was on duty. I want to assure the public that we take any allegation of misconduct by our employees, whether on or off duty, very seriously. The CHP is fully cooperating with the investigating agency. In addition, the CHP is conducting its own investigation into the allegations. While the investigation is being conducted, the employee has been placed on administrative leave and his peace officer powers have been revoked.
The CHP is a proud and professional organization. I want to emphasize to the public that the alleged conduct of this employee does not reflect the values, hard work, dedication and professionalism of the CHP and its more than 11,000 employees, who proudly work each day to provide the best in Safety, Service, and Security to the people of California.
This is hardly the first time that a CHP officer has been accused of committing sexual assault or even more unbelievably serious crimes while in the line of duty. A 13-year veteran of the San Diego California Highway Patrol, Craig Allen Peyer, was convicted in 1988 of stalking and murdering a 20-year-old San Diego State University co-ed, Cara Evelyn Knott, on a similar routine traffic stop that Chavez experienced.

Since the time of convicted CHP officer Craig Peyer, the CHP never
learned from its mistakes in holding its officers accountable for their
actions in public
Cara Knott vanished on December 27, 1986, while driving from her boyfriend's home in Escondido to her parents' home in El Cajon. Her lifeless body was eventually found at the bottom of a ravine below a 65-foot bridge, near an abandoned off-ramp in San Diego.

Peyer, who was on duty in his patrol car on the day of Knott's disappearance, had apparently singled out the young woman for her attractiveness and stopped the coed on a traffic stop, ordering her to pull off the highway on an isolated, unfinished off-ramp. 

It was later revealed in an investigaton that the CHP had known Peyer had a history of sexually harassing a number of other female drivers in the same area and pulling them over on the same off-ramp in order to sexually proposition them; however, the CHP failed to remove him from his job or do anything else to protect the public from this known public menace.

One thing led to another and when Knott turned down Peyer's sexual advances, he became physical by assaulting her. Knott fought back, resulting in angering Peyer, whereby he bludgeoned her unconscious with his flashlight and strangled her to death with a rope. Peyer then covered up his crime by throwing the body over the edge of an abandoned bridge.


The problem with the CHP in this recurring problem of sexual assault on female drivers is that they know that a number of their officers sexually harass women while on the job; however, they allow their problem officers to drive alone without a partner, and only mount a camera on the dashboard, so that no supervision is ever maintained to hold their officers accountable for their actions.


These same creepy CHP officers know where their cameras are at all time and know how to turn off their body microphones, so they can literally get away with murder if they want. Thus, history repeats itself simply because the CHP command refuse to hold their own officers accountable for their own actions.


Clearly, the CHP are not real cops as they desperately want to be perceived as, because real cops hold their own accountable to answer for their own actions. They are really just a bunch of glorified meter maids who don't answer to anyone, including any real, independent internal affairs inquiries.


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