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OC Deputy Charged With Filing 18 False Police Reports

Posted by: Jubal | 05/21/2008 2:25 PM

This is inspiring. It came over the transom earlier this afternoon:

ORANGE COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPUTY CHARGED WITH FILING 18 FALSE POLICE REPORTS IN DNA PROPERTY CRIMES PROJECT

SANTA ANA - An Orange County Sheriff's deputy was charged this morning with filing false police reports with the Orange County Sheriff's Department (OCSD). Jason Christopher Brant, 33, Chino, is charged with 18 misdemeanor counts of filing a false report as a peace officer. He faces a maximum sentence of 18 years in jail if convicted. Brant is scheduled to be arraigned Thursday, May 29, 2008, at 9:00 a.m. at the Central Justice Center in Santa Ana.  

In 2005 the Orange County District Attorney's Office and OCSD received a grant from the National Institute of Justice. The grant funded a South Orange County project to determine the effectiveness in using DNA to solve property crimes.

Brant, a sworn deputy, is a 10-year veteran with the OCSD and was selected by the Department to work on this project. He was assigned to follow up on 39 of the 500 property crimes cases that were selected for DNA testing. Brant's job included contacting the victims of 39 cases that occurred between 2005 and 2007, conducting 39 follow-up investigations, collecting contact information from the victims in the event that a DNA match led to an identification of a defendant in their case, and determining the victim's willingness to cooperate in the case.

On January 14, 2008, Brant submitted 39 reports to OCSD. Of those 39 cases, Brant is accused of filing 18 false police reports stating that he had contacted each victim by telephone and they had declined to cooperate in the investigation. 

Deputy District Attorney Tammy Spurgeon of the DNA Unit is prosecuting this case. 

Comments

Rocket said:

These guys don't fall too far from the tree of Command Staff. Any nubie appointed as Sheriff is not going to know who's who at the zoo.

Anonymous said:

This is the guy who teaches report writing at the Academy? Great!

Redismyfav said:

Anonymous, is it him?

COTOBLOGZZ said:

Another instance of that now infamous OCSD culture Sheriff Hutechens must change – perhaps she can call Sheriff Joe Arapaio at 3:00 am?

Sheriff Joe Arpaio Ain’t No OC Sheriff
Perhaps Sheriff Arpaio would not have even made the Orange County Board of Supervisor’s paper cut.

June 24, 2008
We continue to make the point that the OSCD is in dire need of an extreme cultural make-over. In contrast, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, is not putting up with Shaquille O’Neal’s, antics as Shaq apparently will lose his special deputy’s badge in Maricopa County because of language he used in a rap video that mocks former teammate Kobe Bryant

Given that observable signs of an organization's culture include organizational stories and legends, rituals and ceremonies, language, physical structures and symbols, self-described “America’s Toughest Sheriff”, Sheriff Arpaio, who is known for feeding jail inmates green bologna, clothing them in pink underwear, and making them work on chain gangs, said he didn’t expect his actions would teach Shaq a lesson. But he hoped he learns that as a role model who wants to someday be a full-time sheriff, he needs to know his words matter, according to an AP article titled Shaq gets slapped by sheriff for rap about Bryant published earlier today.

Compare that to the recent stories about the OCSD’s culture described by deputies as a frat-house, or even a high-ranking married official sharing a document describing his amorous accomplishments. But then of course, Orange County is a much more progressive county than Maricopa. Perhaps Sheriff Arpaio would not have even made the Orange County Board of Supervisor’s paper cut.

CoffeeNow said:

What is the latest on this case? Anyone following the process?

p438fpd said:

This case was originally refused by the O.C.D.A.'s office and the OCSD brass, under the direction of Acting Sheriff Anderson, went D.A. shopping going to Central Court to find a D.A. who'd file it. The case was originally refused in South Court. There are numerous discrepancies within the documents filed with the D.A. by OCSD. I, personally, challenged the OC Register reporter who broke the story to do some investigating of his own and haven't heard anything more from him. What he wrote was verbatim from the OCSD and OCDA press releases and nothing more.

I used to think journalists were supposed to find the truth but, as this case and Fox News have shown me, the real truth doesn't matter. It's only what gets people to buy a paper or watch your show that journalists care about. Not facts, pure fiction.

OC District Attorney, Tony Rackaukas, needs to take a close look at this case before it goes to trial because it's going to cause his office some major embarrassment.

I am a retired (after 31 years of service) Fullerton police officer and filed cases with Rackaukas when he was a Deputy D.A. at North Court. He would never file a case that had been previously rejected by another DDA.

I have conducted extensive research and found no record of the OCDA's office ever having filed criminal charges against an active law enforcement officer for falsifying a police report anytime in the last 40 years. Every agency handles those kind of allegations administratively.

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