Fairfax County Police Watch: Four REPORTED cases of cops molesting children in the past few days...how many went unreported?

Mathis Police Officer Accused of Indecency with a Child Arrested

ALICE (Kiii News) - Mathis Police Officer Antonio Gutierrez, 50, was arrested by the Jim Wells County Sheriff's Department Tuesday after he was accused of indecency with a child, according to Sheriff's Department Sgt. Felix Saenz.

Saenz said that a 14-year old girl reported indecency by sexual contact to the Sheriff's Office on Sunday. She was 13 year's old at the time and is not a relative of Guitierrez'. Police said that the girl reported that the incident happened within the last few months.

Mathis Police Chief Gerald Arismendez said that Gutierrez has been placed on suspension without pay pending the outcome of the investigation, which is being conducted by the Jim Wells County Sheriff's Department, Texas Rangers and Child Protective Services.

Gutierrez is being held on a $50,000 bond.

Vinita Police Officer arrested, accused of lewd acts with child

The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation said a police officer in Vinita was arrested for lewd molestation of a child.

Sean Floyd, 35, was arrested by the OSBI for multiple counts of lewd molestation with a child under 16. According to the OSBI, Floyd was an officer at the Vinita Police Department.

OSBI says it was called August 18th by the Craig County Sheriff's Office to investigate claims that he was have sexual contact with a girl under 16. He was arrested and booked into the Craig County Jail Thursday.

OSBI agents believe only one victim is involved however the investigation is still open.

Former HPD officer who was shot in face charged with indecency with child

By Dale Lezon

More details have emerged after a former Houston police officer was arrested in Brazoria County for alleged sexual activity.

Daniel Vaughan is charged with attempt to commit indecency with a child and indecency by exposure criminal episode, according to the Brazoria County Sheriff's Office. His indicment was executed Wednesday and he surrendered to authorities at 4:20 a.m.

Vaughan was being held in the Brazoria County jail in lieu of $25,000 bail.

Deputies said Vaughan was one of four people accused after a 15-year-old girl told authorities in 2013 her 42-year-old father and the others had been involved in sexually abusing her. The allegations sparked an investigation that led to the arrests in the case.

The girl's father was arrested in June 2014 and later pleaded gulity to five counts of aggravated sexual assault of a child. He was sentenced to 50 years in state prison. His name has not been released to protect his daughter's identity. Vaughan was the man's landlord.

Deputies said Amy Gilliam was also arrested and charged in the case. She pleaded guilty to aggravated sexual assault of a child and was sentenced to five years in state prison.

Deputies said Steven Watkins, 23, was charged with aggravated sexual assault of a child and was arrested in February. He is awaiting trial.

Vaughan retired from the Houston Police Department in 2001, according to HPD officials. In 1993, police said, he was wounded when he was shot in the face while on duty.

On March 20 of that year, a gunman walked into a police substation at Webster and St. Emanuel about 11:45 a.m. and asked to see a supervisor. Before the supervisor came to the desk, Vaughan, dressed in plain clothes, walked through the door carrying some files, and the gunman apparently mistook him for a supervisor and opened fire with a .380-caliber pistol.

Vaughan was struck once just above the right eye and once beside his nose. The suspect then pointed the gun at two other officers, who dove for cover. The man fled the substation without firing another shot.

"I looked down the barrel and saw the bullet, " Vaughan told the Chronicle after the incident. "A few moments later that bullet went in my right eye and through the back of my head."

Vaughan is now a law enforcement trainer and motivational speaker, according to his website, dannyvaughan.com.

Police: Henry sheriff’s captain arrested for arranging tryst with child

By Michelle E. Shaw

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

A Henry County sheriff’s deputy was arrested in DeKalb County and stands accused of attempting to arrange a sexual encounter with a 14-year-old.

Capt. David McCart of the Henry County Sheriff’s Office was arrested Tuesday after a two-month investigation, according to Channel 2 Action News.

DeKalb investigators told Channel 2 that McCart met the boy online through social media. The two allegedly talked about different sexual activities and agreed to meet, according to the television report.

“We were doing a cross-country operation with the FBI and during that time we came into contact with an individual later identified as Captain McCart,” DeKalb County police Sgt. Torrey Kennedy told Channel 2. “Mr. McCart was on a social media website chatting with who he believed was an underage child. During that chat, they had a sexual, explicit conversation in which they agreed to meet for sex.”

The conversation moved to texting as McCart allegedly planned to meet the child. Once they agreed on a time and place, McCart showed up at the mall, where he was met by police, according to the report.

The investigation into McCart’s activities continues, as police determine whether he had contact with other children.

Morrogh finds cop he doesn’t love. In other news, hell freezes.

Probe of fatal police shooting goes to federal authorities

By Justin Jouvenal/Post

The Fairfax County prosecutor has turned over the investigation of a fatal police shooting of an unarmed Springfield man to federal authorities, citing complications with the five-month-old case.

Commonwealth’s Attorney Ray Morrogh said the U.S. attorney’s office for the Eastern District of Virginia has agreed to continue the probe into the death of 46-year-old John Geer, who was shot during a standoff with Fairfax County police in August. No one has been charged in the incident.

“There is a conflict of interest that has arisen in the case,” Morrogh said Thursday. “And there is a second potential conflict of interest that has arisen out of my office. . . . This is the prudent thing to do.”

Morrogh declined to describe the nature of the conflicts because the investigation is ongoing. The U.S. attorney’s office said Thursday that it could not confirm or deny any investigation or comment on pending investigations.

Police went to Geer’s Pebble Brook Court home on Aug. 29 because of a report of a domestic disturbance. Geer’s father, Don Geer, said his son was upset because his girlfriend, the mother of his two children, had decided to leave him.

John Geer had thrown his girlfriend’s belongings in the front yard. She called police and told them that Geer had a firearm. Police said they tried for about 50 minutes to persuade Geer to leave the home, but he refused.

Don Geer said he watched the climax of the encounter. He said that he could not hear what officers were saying to his son but that he saw him standing with empty hands resting on top of a screen door at the home’s entrance.

At some point, John Geer began to slowly lower his hands and an officer opened fire, hitting Geer in the chest, his father said. Geer retreated inside and closed the door. A SWAT team eventually entered the home and found Geer dead.

Don Geer said detectives later told him that his son did not have a gun on him at the time of the shooting but that there was a holstered handgun a couple of steps from the front door.

Don Geer said it appeared to him that the shooting was unjustified, but he was unsure what to make of the probe being turned over to federal authorities.

“I don’t know whether that’s good or bad — if I had a better idea of why they are doing it, I could form an opinion,” he said.

Geer and friends of his son have been critical of how long the investigation has taken, but Morrogh said police and prosecutors were working to explore all the evidence. He did not think federal prosecutors would have to start from scratch.

“No one wants these things to linger on,” Morrogh said.

Our ink will outlast his career

Under the reign of former Chief of Police Rhorer the Fairfax County Police arrested a man for not wearing clothes in his house while he made coffee, set up an eye doctor on a gambling charge and then used the SWAT team to kill him. An investigation into the charge that the Doctor’s primary clients were cops has never been investigated. The police gunned down an emotionally unstable man because cop who shot him wrongly assumed the man was trying to escape. He wasn’t. The cops also shot dead four other citizens under highly questionable circumstances. The department under Rhorer was sued multiple times by citizens. So did they fire Rhorer? Naw they promoted him. According to news reports Rhorer draws a salary of $191,168 per year as Deputy Fairfax County Executive as well as a concurrent pension from the Fairfax County police of $173000 per year.

Occupation by force

According to the most recent U.S. Census figures, nearly one in five Fairfax residents (17.5 percent) is of Asian descent while Hispanics make up nearly 16 percent of Fairfax’s overall population. Those numbers drop considerably when applied to the Fairfax County Police Department, where only 4.3 percent of officers are Asian and 4.1 percent Hispanic. White officers make up 84 percent of Fairfax County’s 1,360-member police department, significantly higher than the county’s general population (54 percent white). Almost 90% of the force lives outside the county.