Roughly 150 energetic and 725 closed circumstances involving two cops, who just lately had been accused of falsifying a report, are being reviewed, Lengthy Seaside Metropolis Prosecutor Doug Haubert mentioned this week.
The officers, Dedier Reyes and David Salcedo, had been accused of mendacity in regards to the circumstances of the restoration of a firearm throughout an arrest in 2018; police mentioned a surveillance video revealed discrepancies of their report. The 2 officers had been on administrative go away as of Tuesday, Jan. 11, Lengthy Seaside police spokesman Brandon Fahey mentioned.
Reyes and Salcedo had been charged with one rely every of submitting a false report and falsifying a public document on Dec. 6, a couple of days after they had been arrested. Reyes was additionally going through one rely of perjury.
Because of the seriousness of the costs, Haubert’s workplace started creating an motion plan to evaluate any circumstances involving the 2 officers days after studying of the information.
“That is the primary time our workplace has needed to create a case motion plan,” Haubert mentioned, “since there are precise felony prices and people prices straight contact on falsification of police stories.”
One case for driving underneath the affect has already been dismissed, Haubert mentioned. In that case, Reyes was the one officer concerned within the arrest and the case was set to go to trial, he mentioned.
“He’s not accessible to testify at a trial so long as (the felony prices) are pending, for that case to proceed,” he mentioned.
The Metropolis Prosecutor’s workplace oversees misdemeanor circumstances for Lengthy Seaside.
The Los fivengeles County District Legal professional’s Workplace, the company that charged Reyes and Salcedo, handles felony circumstances. It was unclear if the District Legal professional’s Workplace was reviewing any of their circumstances involving both officer.
Reyes, who has been with the Lengthy Seaside Police Division for 16 years, doubtlessly has 99 energetic circumstances and 635 closed circumstances that had been underneath evaluate with the Metropolis Prosecutor’s workplace, in keeping with Haubert. Salcedo, who has been with the division for 5 years, doubtlessly has 52 energetic and 90 closed circumstances.
“This may require plenty of work on our half, however we expect it’s important,” Haubert mentioned. “We’re taking this very critically, not solely due to the variety of circumstances concerned, but additionally the seriousness of the costs.”
As a part of his workplace’s plan, Haubert mentioned step one is to proceed monitoring for any potential new circumstances involving both officer. Then, the general public defender’s workplace can be notified of any circumstances involving both officer, he mentioned.
Any protection attorneys or defendants in energetic circumstances can be notified if their case entails one of many officers, he mentioned. They are going to finally even be posted to the Metropolis Prosecutor’s web site.
“That’s going to require the protection to inform us if there’s some situation (involving a case),” Haubert mentioned. “As a result of they may see the case otherwise than we do.”
New circumstances can be reviewed as a precedence, adopted by energetic or pending circumstances, after which closed circumstances if requested by a protection lawyer or defendant, in keeping with Haubert. A coverage evaluate committee will even meet to debate dealing with the circumstances and the workload biweekly, he mentioned.
The Police Division was supportive of the Metropolis Prosecutor’s evaluate, and “are all the time open to an neutral and goal evaluation of the info and proof in circumstances involving our division and personnel,” police spokesman Fahey mentioned in an announcement.