An Orange County Sheriff\u2019s Department deputy suspected of sexually assaulting an inmate has been arrested, authorities announced Thursday.<\/p>\n
The inmate reported the alleged assault to a jail staff member on Oct. 14, stating that in March, while she was in custody on an undisclosed offense, a deputy assaulted her while she was receiving medical care at a hospital, according to the sheriff\u2019s department.<\/p>\n
Sheriff\u2019s deputies immediately began an investigation that included corroborating information, collecting digital evidence, and serving multiple search warrants, which led to the arrest of Leobardo Martinez Garcia on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Garcia, 29, was booked into the Santa Ana Jail on suspicion of felony sexual battery and assault \u201dunder the color of authority.\u201d<\/p>\n
He posted bail on Thursday and has since been released.<\/p>\n
The deputy has been placed on administrative leave by the department pending the outcome of the internal and criminal investigations.<\/p>\n
The case is expected to be presented to the Orange County District Attorney\u2019s Office following the completion of the sheriff\u2019s department investigation for formal criminal filing consideration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Orange County Sheriff\u2019s Department deputy suspected of sexually assaulting an inmate has been arrested, authorities announced Thursday.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31138,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,2040,4163,166,167,22976,171,22977,22713],"class_list":["post-31471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-arrested","tag-assaulting","tag-county","tag-deputy","tag-inmate","tag-orange","tag-sexually","tag-suspected"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}