Charges Considered Against Ex-Deputy
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Prosecutors are still considering whether to file criminal charges against a former Ventura County sheriff’s deputy for allegedly filing false arrest reports during a two-year period starting three years ago.
Former Deputy Christopher Williams wrote a series of suspiciously similar drunk-driving reports from 1994 through late 1995 in cases that have since had to be dismissed, prosecutors said.
“This particular officer wrote reports with disturbingly similar fact patterns that transcend the usual similarities of a DUI report, so much so that they called . . . the accuracy and reliability of reports into question,” Deputy Dist. Atty. John Cardoza said.
As a result, 30 drunk-driving cases handled by Williams have been thrown out of court, Cardoza said. Seventeen of those cases were dismissed by Municipal Judge John Dobroth on Wednesday.
No additional DUI cases are expected to be linked to the deputy that may also have to be dismissed, Cardoza said.
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