Retired Oakland police captain to be charged in sex probe
MARTINEZ, Calif. — A Northern California prosecutor said Friday that he’s charging a retired police captain with misdemeanour soliciting a prostitute, but found no other criminal conduct within his jurisdiction in a wide-ranging police sexual misconduct case involving more than two dozen officers.
Contra Costa County District Attorney Mark Peterson said that sexual encounters between a teenage prostitute and several officers in his county were consensual and didn’t involve the exchange of money or explicit promises of help.
The district attorney in neighbouring Alameda County last month said she would charge seven current and former officers implicated in the scandal and said there appeared to be evidence of criminal conduct in Contra Costa County. But on Friday, Peterson said none was found after reviewing 19 separate interviews of the teen conducted by six law enforcement agencies.
Peterson declined to name the retired Oakland Police captain until the man is formally charged next week. Peterson said the man is in his 80s and had retired long before his encounter with the teen, who is the daughter of an Oakland Police dispatcher.