Fairfax County Police Watch: The weekly rape by cop report...why doesn't the federal government act?

A New Mexico police officer and a former security officer are behind bars after sexually assaulting a woman on Christmas Eve, authorities said.

Cook County sheriff’s officer charged with attempted sexual assault

A New Mexico police officer and a former security officer are behind bars after sexually assaulting a woman on Christmas Eve, authorities said.

Milan Police officer James Watters, 25, and former court security officer Jessie Terrazas, 28, were arrested after plying a 20-year-old woman with alcohol and forcing her to perform sex acts, police said.

The two men and Grants Police sergeant Jessie Nieto picked up the woman and drove to Grants High School to drink alcohol Thursday, police said.

The men badgered the victim to perform oral sex or have a threesome or foursome after exchanging sexual texts, police said. The girl said no.

When she mentioned rape, Nieto asked to be taken home and got dropped off, according to KOAT.

Watters and Terrazas took the victim to New Mexico State University Grants Campus and gave her alcohol, she told police.

Terrazas forced her to touch him sexually and Watters pulled her hair and made her perform oral sex on him, she told police.

Terrazas told police it was consensual, according to KRQE.

Watters worked for the Milan Police Department for about five months. Watters worked for the Milan Police Department for about five months.Watters' mother, Angela Hendrick, is distressed by the charges. James Watters and Jessie Terrazas drove the woman to Grants High School to drink, police said. James Watters and Jessie Terrazaz have been accused of getting an underaged woman drunk and forcing her to perform oral sex on Christmas Eve.

“This isn’t James,” his mother, Angela Hedrick, said. “A part of me wants to have so much faith in James, but then something happened because why would he be in there?”

Watters was charged with second-degree criminal penetration and providing alcohol to minors.

Terrazas was charged with fourth-degree criminal sexual contact and providing alcohol to minors.

Watters is on paid leave from the Milan Police Department, where he has worked for about five months, his mother said. The father of three small children worked as a firefighter for four years.

Terrazas was fired from his job with the Cibola County Sheriff's Department because of a domestic violence incident, the department said.

Terrazas' bond was set at $50,000 and Watters' was set at $100,000 Friday.

Cook County sheriff’s officer charged with attempted sexual assault

A Cook County sheriff’s officer who was in bond court Thursday is facing a charge of attempted sexual assault, authorities said.

Fernando Rodriguez, 52, was charged with attempted aggravated criminal sexual assault; aggravated unlawful restraint; and official misconduct — all felony counts, Chicago Police said.

Rodriguez was arrested after he allegedly persuaded a 37-year-old woman to enter his vehicle about 1 a.m. Dec. 31 in the 1500 block of North Avers, police said. When she tried to leave, he stopped her and attempted to sexually assault her while armed with a handgun, police said.

According to a police report, Chicago Police officers questioned Rodriguez when they spotted an orange Dodge Charger double parked at that location, but he responded to them by showing his Cook County sheriff’s office badge and saying, “It’s ok guys, I’m on the job.”

A woman, who is a “known prostitute,” then exited the Charger’s passenger seat and told the officers that Rodriguez had invited the woman to get into his car, showed her his holstered handgun and implied a sexual act, the police report said.

The police report states that Rodriguez told the woman, “Take care of me the right way and I’ll let you walk.” When officers arrived, Rodriguez “grabbed her left arm and stated: ‘Be cool.’”

Rodriguez was a deputy sheriff in the Civil Process unit and was not on duty at the time of the incident, said Sophia Ansari, spokeswoman for the sheriff’s office. He has been de-deputized, and the sheriff’s office has launched a disciplinary investigation, Ansari said.

Rodriguez, who lives in River Grove, was given an I-bond and released on his own recognizance Thursday, Ansari said. He is expected to appear in court again Friday.

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.