{"id":500032,"date":"2026-10-18T09:36:57","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T09:36:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/500032\/"},"modified":"2026-10-18T09:36:57","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T09:36:57","slug":"ex-fresno-police-sergeant-guilty-of-lewd-acts-with-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/500032\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Fresno police sergeant guilty of lewd acts with child"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1792316217_410_SAC courts justice ruling conviction purple still chyron frame.jpeg\"   width=\"1200\" height=\"674\" title=\"\" alt=\"in the courts\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A former Fresno police sergeant was convicted Thursday of attempting to commit lewd acts with a child under 14 following an undercover investigation by Roseville police that led to 19 arrests.<\/p>\n<p>A Placer County jury found Paige Grant McQuay guilty of attempted lewd and lascivious acts upon a child under 14 and communicating with a minor with the intent to commit an unlawful sexual offense, according to the Placer County District Attorney\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p>The verdict followed a six-day trial in Placer Superior Court. The court also found additional aggravating factors to be true, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n<p>McQuay was arrested in September 2024 as part of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fresnobee.com\/news\/local\/crime\/article292706939.html\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Roseville Police Department sting operation targeting adults<\/a> seeking to engage in sexual activity with children online.<\/p>\n<p>Roseville detectives posed as children on messaging apps during the investigation, which resulted in 19 people being arrested on felony charges, police said at the time.<\/p>\n<p>McQuay, then 56, was arrested in Fresno on Sept. 18, 2024, while serving as a sergeant with the Fresno Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>He had worked for the department since 1993 and was promoted to sergeant in April 2023. At the time of his arrest, McQuay supervised about 15 officers assigned to a patrol unit in Fresno\u2019s northeast policing district.<\/p>\n<p>McQuay was scheduled to be sentenced Nov. 9 in Auburn, prosecutors said. He remains in custody following the verdict, according to the DA\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A former Fresno police sergeant was convicted Thursday of attempting to commit lewd acts with a child under&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":500033,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122],"class_list":["post-500032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500032","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=500032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/500033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}