{"id":53630,"date":"2023-07-20T13:26:06","date_gmt":"2023-07-20T20:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=53630"},"modified":"2023-07-20T13:26:06","modified_gmt":"2023-07-20T20:26:06","slug":"former-la-deputy-agrees-to-plead-guilty-to-violating-civil-rights-of-skateboarder-who-was-falsely-imprisoned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=53630","title":{"rendered":"Former LA Deputy Agrees to Plead Guilty to Violating Civil Rights of Skateboarder Who Was Falsely Imprisoned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"yiv0781681191MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<strong>LOS ANGELES<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv0781681191MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11000 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/fbi-BADGE-300x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/fbi-BADGE-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/fbi-BADGE-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/fbi-BADGE.jpeg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>A former Los Angeles County Sheriff\u2019s Department deputy agreed to plead guilty to a felony charge of violating the civil rights of a 23-year-old man at a Compton skatepark, officials announced Thursday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv0781681191MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 According to officials, Christopher Blair Hernandez falsely imprisoned the skateboarder and obstructed justice to cover up the illegal detention.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv0781681191MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">\u00a0Hernandez, 37, who was a sheriff\u2019s deputy formerly assigned to LASD\u2019s Compton Station, agreed to plead guilty to one count of conspiracy, according to a plea agreement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv0781681191MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Hernandez will formally plead guilty to the felony charge in the coming weeks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ex-LASD deputies accused of false imprisonment, cover up after skateboarder injured in pursuit crash\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9WlzzK7yFU4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv0781681191MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 According to his plea agreement, on the afternoon of April 13, 2020, Hernandez and this then-partner, former LASD deputy Miguel Angel Vega, were in uniform and on patrol in an LASD sports utility vehicle in the area near Wilson Park in Compton as part of their official duties at LASD. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv0781681191MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">While on patrol, Hernandez and Vega saw two young Black males, one of whom Hernandez believed was on probation, outside a skateboard park enclosed by a tall fence within Wilson Park. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv0781681191MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Vega parked the SUV on the grass near the skatepark, after which Hernandez and Vega got out of the SUV and approached the individuals whom they ordered to lift their shirts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv0781681191MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 At this point, the victim \u2013 who is identified in court documents as \u201cJ.A.\u201d \u2013 from inside the enclosed skatepark began yelling at Hernandez and Vega to leave the Black males alone. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv0781681191MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">J.A. did not threaten Vega or Hernandez or any of the other approximately 10 to 15 people inside the skatepark, who likewise did not pose any danger to Vega or Hernandez. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv0781681191MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Vega and J.A. then got into an argument, during which Vega challenged J.A. to a fight, according to the plea agreement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv0781681191MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">The plea agreement states that Vega then grabbed and pulled J.A. through an opening in the skatepark fence and confined J.A. in the back of the SUV as Hernandez looked on. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv0781681191MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">During this incident, although Hernandez and Vega had ample time to do so, J.A. was not handcuffed, his seatbelt was not secured, he was never told he was under arrest, nor was he informed of his rights. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv0781681191MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">According to the plea agreement, Hernandez knew that Hernandez and Vega did not have any lawful basis to detain J.A., particularly after Vega had challenged J.A. to a fight.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv0781681191MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 After leaving the park, Vega, who was still driving the SUV with Hernandez in the front passenger seat and J.A. confined in the backseat, again challenged J.A. to a fight and taunted J.A. that the deputies were going to \u201cset up\u201d J.A., or words to that effect, and drop J.A. in gang territory, the plea agreement states. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv0781681191MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">According to the plea agreement, Hernandez added that Hernandez would beat up J.A. if they fought. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv0781681191MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">In addition, Vega made statements to J.A. suggesting to Hernandez that the two deputies would fabricate and falsely allege that J.A. exhibited symptoms of being under the influence of a stimulant as a pretext to justify their false imprisonment of J.A. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv0781681191MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Even though he did not believe that J.A. was under the influence of a stimulant, Hernandez did not take any steps to release J.A., challenge Vega\u2019s actions, or alert a supervisor about what had occurred and was occurring.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv0781681191MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 While Vega and Hernandez continued driving with J.A. still confined in the back of the SUV, Vega began pursuing a group of young males on bicycles, one of whom appeared to grab his waistband and began riding away down an alley. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv0781681191MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Hernandez got out of the SUV to attempt to capture the bicyclist on foot, and Vega drove the SUV down the alley, where Vega crashed into a wall and another vehicle, causing J.A. to hit his face and head and sustain a cut above his right eye that later required stitches, court documents state. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv0781681191MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Following the collision, Vega removed J.A. from the patrol vehicle and told him to leave, informing Hernandez, who responded on foot to the alley shortly thereafter, that he had done so. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv0781681191MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">After Vega released J.A. following the collision, J.A. walked out of the alley and tried to get help from strangers at a nearby house.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv0781681191MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 After the traffic collision, Vega reported over LASD radio that a person purportedly with a gun, whom Vega described as wearing clothes similar to J.A.\u2019s clothing that day, had fled through an alley, which prompted numerous LASD personnel to respond to the scene to set up a containment zone. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv0781681191MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Even though Vega also reported the traffic collision over LASD radio, neither Vega during the radio calls nor Vega or Hernandez during a subsequent conversation with their supervising sergeant at the scene, initially disclosed that they had detained J.A. at the skatepark or that J.A. had been in the SUV during the collision in the alley, Hernandez admitted in the plea agreement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv0781681191MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It was only after Vega learned that J.A. had been independently detained on a neighboring street by another LASD deputy as the purported gun suspect that Vega informed other deputies and his supervising sergeant that J.A. had been in the SUV during the crash, officials stated.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv0781681191MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">While J.A. was at a hospital later in the day to receive treatment for the injuries he sustained from the collision, Hernandez spoke with another deputy who had escorted J.A. to the hospital. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv0781681191MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Consistent with the plan suggested and articulated by Vega earlier in the day, Hernandez directed the deputy at the hospital to issue J.A. a citation for being under the influence of methamphetamine, even though Hernandez knew this to be false, according to the plea agreement. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv0781681191MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">The deputy followed Hernandez\u2019s direction and issued the citation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv0781681191MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Hernandez and Vega authored two incident reports regarding the day\u2019s events. Hernandez and Vega intentionally included false, misleading, and ambiguous information in the reports to justify and legitimize, and ultimately cover-up, their unlawful conduct, Hernandez admitted in the plea agreement. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv0781681191MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">The first report falsely stated that J.A. appeared to be under the influence of a stimulant; that J.A. had threatened to harm people in the skatepark, as well as Vega and Hernandez; that a crowd of people were moving toward the LASD patrol vehicle as the defendants drove away after unlawfully detaining J.A; and that, following the crash in the alley, Vega checked J.A. for injuries and J.A. was placed in another patrol vehicle of an assisting LASD unit until paramedics arrived. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv0781681191MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">According to the plea agreement, the second report likewise falsely stated that Vega transferred J.A. to another patrol vehicle after the collision, which both Hernandez and Vega knew to be false.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv0781681191MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Vega has pleaded not guilty to a five-count indictment charging him with conspiracy, deprivation of rights under color of law, witness tampering, and two counts of falsification of records. His trial is scheduled for October 24.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv0781681191MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<i><\/i><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">The FBI is investigating this matter. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv0781681191MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Assistant U.S. Attorneys J. Jamari Buxton and Brian R. Faerstein of the Public Corruption and Civil Rights Section are prosecuting this case.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0LOS ANGELES A former Los Angeles County Sheriff\u2019s Department deputy agreed to plead guilty to a felony charge of violating the civil rights of a 23-year-old man at a Compton skatepark, officials&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23456,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Former LA Deputy Agrees to Plead Guilty to Violating Civil Rights of Skateboarder Who Was Falsely 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