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Demovictory9

(32,472 posts) Fri Sep 11, 2020, 09:41 AM Sep 2020

OC sheriff's deputy accused of taking debit card from theft suspect and giving it to her son

https://www.ocregister.com/2020/09/09/oc-sheriffs-deputy-accused-of-taking-debit-card-from-theft-suspect-and-giving-it-to-her-son/

A female Orange County sheriff’s deputy is accused of taking a debit card from a theft suspect and giving it to her son, prosecutors announced Wednesday.

Seven-year veteran Angelina Cortez, 41, has been charged with filing a false police report and faces a maximum sentence of three years in prison if convicted.

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Cortez and her training officer responded on Nov. 19, 2018, to a call of a man stealing wine and batteries from a San Clemente 7-Eleven store.

She is accused of taking the theft suspect’s debit card, putting it in her uniform shirt pocket and later giving it to her son, who then used it. The card was never booked into evidence. This case is not one of those involved with the department’s evidence scandal, a pattern of deputies not booking property evidence in a timely manner, if at all, said department officials.

Cortez is scheduled to be arraigned on Nov. 18. She is now on paid leave from the Sheriff’s Department, where she made $248,000 annually in pay and benefits, according to the latest report in Transparent California website.

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OC sheriff's deputy accused of taking debit card from theft suspect and giving it to her son (Original Post) Demovictory9 Sep 2020 OP

Paid leave is total BULLSHIT! bluestarone Sep 2020 #1

she makes $248,000 a year... she got to bank that money for how long? Demovictory9 Sep 2020 #4

She does not make 248k a year obamanut2012 Sep 2020 #6

no.. her salary is probably about 150K Demovictory9 Sep 2020 #7

If a nurse did that Horse with no Name Sep 2020 #2

..and no 2 year investigation Demovictory9 Sep 2020 #3

she made $248,000 annually in pay and benefits.... wtf, outrageous, no copper should be paid that Celerity Sep 2020 #5

Every person should make a good salary and have an excellent benefits package obamanut2012 Sep 2020 #8

Our police make nowhere near that, quarter of a million USD in total Celerity Sep 2020 #12

Hmmmm... 2naSalit Sep 2020 #9

Why would it be a set up? kcr Sep 2020 #14

Damn, she's been on paid leave since June 2019? cwydro Sep 2020 #10

definitely! Demovictory9 Sep 2020 #11

Greedy. Baitball Blogger Sep 2020 #13

And here's the story of another OC sheriff's deputy who robbed the home of a deceased person Beaverhausen Sep 2020 #15

Kick dalton99a Sep 2020 #16

bluestarone

(17,025 posts)

1. Paid leave is total BULLSHIT!

Reply to Demovictory9 (Original post)

Fri Sep 11, 2020, 09:46 AM

Sep 2020

This has to be changed somehow! IF found guilty the money has got to be returned!

Demovictory9

(32,472 posts)

4. she makes $248,000 a year... she got to bank that money for how long?

Reply to bluestarone (Reply #1)

Fri Sep 11, 2020, 10:04 AM

Sep 2020

outrageous

obamanut2012

(26,111 posts)

6. She does not make 248k a year

Reply to Demovictory9 (Reply #4)

Fri Sep 11, 2020, 10:21 AM

Sep 2020

Her salary and benefits package is 248K a year. That includes her healthcare and PTO. She probably makes about 65-75K a year. That is not outrageous by any means. I begrudge her none of that. Every American should have decent pay and excellent benefits.

She will lose this because she is a criminal and a sociopath. Luckily for her she lives in CA, so she should still be able to get affordable healthcare, so she can at least be healthy while she works some POS job.

Demovictory9

(32,472 posts)

7. no.. her salary is probably about 150K

Reply to obamanut2012 (Reply #6)

Fri Sep 11, 2020, 10:23 AM

Sep 2020

Horse with no Name

(33,956 posts)

2. If a nurse did that

Reply to Demovictory9 (Original post)

Fri Sep 11, 2020, 09:57 AM

Sep 2020

They would lose their job on the spot and license revocation would be next.

Demovictory9

(32,472 posts)

3. ..and no 2 year investigation

Reply to Horse with no Name (Reply #2)

Fri Sep 11, 2020, 10:03 AM

Sep 2020

Celerity

(43,485 posts)

5. she made $248,000 annually in pay and benefits.... wtf, outrageous, no copper should be paid that

Reply to Demovictory9 (Original post)

Fri Sep 11, 2020, 10:09 AM

Sep 2020

and she can go fuck right off for being a criminal on top of that

obamanut2012

(26,111 posts)

8. Every person should make a good salary and have an excellent benefits package

Reply to Celerity (Reply #5)

Fri Sep 11, 2020, 10:24 AM

Sep 2020

She probably makes about 65-75K, with a good healthcare, PTO, and pension benefits package. Every American deserves that. No one deserves to lose healthcare, but they do deserve to lose a good job for being a criminal.

There is nothing at all wrong with that. You live in Sweden, correct? Your LEOs there probably make more, and have benefits even better. Your store clerks also have great benefits and a good salary, as they should. Everyone should.

Celerity

(43,485 posts)

12. Our police make nowhere near that, quarter of a million USD in total

Reply to obamanut2012 (Reply #8)

Fri Sep 11, 2020, 11:33 AM

Sep 2020

compensation package per anum is outrageous. It is poor distribution of wages and has multiple negative knock-on effects.

2naSalit

(86,767 posts)

9. Hmmmm...

Reply to Demovictory9 (Original post)

Fri Sep 11, 2020, 10:47 AM

Sep 2020

I see a lot of interesting things in this write up that make me go hmmm.

Orange County, CA and a female officer named Cortez gets in trouble and there's outrage.

Then some info about how this is not connected to what..?

This case is not one of those involved with the department’s evidence scandal*, a pattern of deputies not booking property evidence in a timely manner, if at all, said department officials.

Um, okay. Could this be a set up?

Asking for a friend.

* emphasis mine.