SF cop charged with bank robbery also a defendant in elder abuse case

Source: SF Chronicle

A San Francisco police officer charged this week with robbing a bank is also facing criminal charges of elder abuse in San Mateo County, where prosecutors said he systematically stole more than $13,000 over a three-month period from a 76-year-old man with dementia.

Rain Daugherty was charged in July with theft from an elder adult, a felony, and four misdemeanor counts of possessing illegal drugs that police said they found in his home in Burlingame. He pleaded not guilty in August and was freed on $100,000 bail.

On Wednesday, federal prosecutors in San Francisco charged Daugherty with bank robbery, saying he had been identified by surveillance video as the man who entered an East West Bank branch on San Francisco’s Irving Street on Nov. 29, demanded cash from a teller and fled with $9,050. He was arrested Tuesday and jailed pending a detention hearing Friday.

Daugherty, 44, was also one of the officers whose racist, sexist and homophobic text messages to one another were revealed in 2015. Then-Police Chief Greg Suhr sought to fire Daugherty and eight other officers, but the disciplinary proceedings were put on hold until state courts rejected a claim by a group of officers, led by Daugherty, that the department had missed a legal deadline for taking action. Disciplinary proceedings against the officers have resumed.

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