Post by Logan on Jul 1, 2016 23:29:52 GMT -6
A Contra Costa County sheriff’s deputy resigned Thursday after a teenager at the center of a Bay Area-wide police scandal said the deputy had sex with her several times last summer when she was 17 years old.
Ricardo Perez’s departure was announced by Sheriff David Livingston, who said in a statement that his agency “will not tolerate even a single breach of the public trust we work so hard to earn.”
An attorney for Perez, who worked in the county’s jails, has not responded to requests for comment. Perez resigned on the same day The Chronicle published an account of his actions provided by the teenager, who turned 18 in August and asked to be identified by her online alias of Celeste Guap.
Perez had been the subject of an internal disciplinary investigation, and he remains the subject of a criminal probe by the Oakland Police Department.
Guap, who lives in Richmond and works as a prostitute, said that she had sex with 29 officers in the Bay Area in the past two years and that her relations with Perez as well as three Oakland police officers occurred before she turned 18. One of the three Oakland officers committed suicide in September after leaving a note that referred to Guap.
Read more: www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Contra-Costa-deputy-resigns-as-teen-names-him-in-8335154.php