Lawsuit: Multiple officers shared lewd, secret recordings, including fired Pinole cop tied to ‘Mafia’ texting group

PINOLE — A Bay Space lady who was allegedly secretly recorded by a fired Pinole cop has sued him and the town’s police division, alleging that he shared a secretly recorded express video of her with at the least one different police officer.

The plaintiff, who this newspaper isn't naming, alleges that Anthony Luciano Vasquez secretly filmed a “transient” sexual encounter between her and Vasquez in his room, then shared the video with the textual content messaging group. The lawsuit alleges that Vasquez “distributed, shared and offensively mentioned” the video “with at the least one different legislation enforcement officer,” who did not report what was happening.

Vasquez, 25, was charged in September 2021 with one felony rely of eavesdropping and one misdemeanor cost of disorderly conduct, each associated to allegations that he secretly filmed this lady with a hidden digicam in March 2021. The lawsuit alleges that police contacted her in Might that 12 months to tell her of the recording. Vasquez was fired from the Pinole police division after the allegations surfaced.

Authorities allege that Vasquez was a part of a textual content messaging group known as “The Mafia” that included 17 contributors. Previous to the alleged secret recording, one other member of the group requested Vasquez if he would quickly have intercourse with the girl and mentioned, “ship a video,” and “get that b—- on snap,” referring to SnapChat, based on the lawsuit.

The swimsuit alleges that supervisors inside the Pinole Police Division “have been conscious, or moderately ought to have been conscious that its workers have been partaking in such illegal conduct,” but did not cease it. Town has not responded to the swimsuit, which was filed final June. A standing convention has been set for subsequent week.

In the meantime, Vasquez’s authorized issues are stacking up. Although he stays out on $20,000 bail, he was arrested and charged final March with a misdemeanor rely of home battery and one misdemeanor rely of false imprisonment, associated to an incident in November 2021, two days earlier than Vasquez’s twenty fifth birthday. His legal professional declined to touch upon the brand new prices.

Within the eavesdropping case, Vasquez is subsequent due in court docket in December, for a preliminary listening to, data present. Vasquez’s legal professional mentioned in a September 2021 he anticipated to show that “the whole lot that occurred concerning these investigations occurred with full consent by all events.”

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