An ex-California police sergeant was charged with greater than a dozen crimes, together with a number of allegations of sexual assault, officers mentioned Thursday.
Nicholas Bloed, previously of the Stockton Police Division, was taken into custody Wednesday with out incident by the U.S. Marshals Service, the San Joaquin County District Lawyer’s Workplace mentioned in an announcement.
Bloed labored with the police division from 2008 “till his current termination,” the assertion mentioned.
The prosecutor’s workplace accused Bloed of committing “a number of” crimes whereas on responsibility.
In a felony grievance, Bloed was charged with assault with intent to commit mayhem, rape, sodomy or oral copulation; two counts of oral copulation by power; and sodomy by power.
Bloed was additionally charged with 5 counts of assault by a public officer; three counts of looking for bribes; one depend of offering compensation for prostitution; and two counts of unauthorized use of pc providers, in keeping with the grievance.
The crimes are alleged to have occurred between 2019 and earlier this 12 months, in keeping with the grievance.
The grievance doesn’t determine the alleged victims.
The Stockton Police Division didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark Friday evening. In an announcement to NBC affiliate KCRA of Sacramento, the division mentioned Bloed now not labored for the division and declined to remark additional.
In an announcement, Allen Sawyer, a lawyer for Bloed, requested for the district lawyer’s workplace to launch grand jury transcripts within the case, saying the proceedings have been a “one-sided star chamber,” the place the witnesses couldn’t be cross-examined.
“Based mostly on a assessment on our assessment of digital communications between the Jane Does on this matter and different proof reviewed, all sexual interactions have been each consensual and infrequently initiated by the Jane Does themselves,” Sawyer mentioned within the assertion.
In a separate assertion, the Stockton Police Officers Affiliation mentioned the fees, if confirmed, “are abhorrent and reprehensible. These accusations by no means mirror the excessive requirements and values of this affiliation and the occupation of legislation enforcement.”
