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BreakingNewsTeam - > Breaking News -> Detentions deputy arrested for soliciting oral sex from inmate
Detentions deputy arrested for soliciting oral sex from inmate

Detention Deputy Arrest

This is a news release of the Kern County Sheriff's Office.
Please do not contact the Sheriff's Communications Center.

Date:  Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Time:  9:48:06 AM

Details:
At about 1:00 PM, on Friday 7/18/08, Sheriff’s Detectives investigated the report of a Kern County Sheriff’s Extra-help Detention Deputy, making inappropriate sexual advances towards an inmate assigned to the Work Release Program.

The Work Release Program is an alterative to full time incarceration. Inmates are allowed to serve custodial time during the day and return home at the end of each work day.

An adult male inmate assigned to the Work Release Program reported that, Extra help Detention Deputy Fredrico Tafoya, under threat of being removed from the Work Release Program, solicited oral copulation. Tafyoa was assigned supervision of inmates assigned to a work crew, participating in the Work Release Program.
 
The subsequent investigation revealed that Detentions Deputy Fredrico Tafoya (26 yrs.), solicited oral copulation. Tafoya had been employed (4) months with the Sheriff’s Office.

The inmate was not injured or physically assaulted.

Sheriff’s Detectives arrested Fredrico Tafoya for the following violations:

One count of False Imprisonment (PC 236)
One count of causing a person to expose themselves (PC 314.2)
One count of Attempted Oral Copulation under Color of Authority (PC 664/288a (k))

He was booked into the Sheriff’s Central Receiving Facility. His bail is set at $22,500 dollars.

Tafoya’s Temporary Extra Help position with the Sheriff’s Office has been terminated. 

Note from Breaking News Team member Jason Kotowski:

Sheriff's officials have clarified what happened in this case. Tafoya actually demanded that the inmate let Tafoya perform oral sex on the inmate. It at first appeared that Tafoya wanted the inmate to perform oral sex on him.

 

Posted in the News interest group.
Topics: Sheriff's, detention deputy, Fredrico Tafoya, arrest, oral sex
posted by BreakingNewsTeam on Wednesday, July 23, 2008 at 10:53 AM
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posted by michele1075 on Jul 23, 2008 at 11:00 AM

Oh my!! Just when I thought I heard it all.....


posted by GrizzlyCoach on Jul 23, 2008 at 11:06 AM

I saw this on Law and Order last night.

posted by WESLEYSMOMMY on Jul 23, 2008 at 11:11 AM

Good grief!!!  Who does the hiring for KCSD extra help? Is it some kind of "Give Thugs A Chance" program? 

posted by michele1075 on Jul 23, 2008 at 11:14 AM

Wesleysmommy-I think once they complete WRP, they go to work as extra help for the KCSD, LOL!! J/K!!


posted by foodjunkie on Jul 23, 2008 at 11:15 AM

to get ahead your have to give he&D ... :P

posted by cghuston on Jul 23, 2008 at 11:47 AM

This is a SWORN officer!!! Apparently they do not do anything wrong ever....?  If you ever have an issue with a probation officer, their supervisor will only take the side of the officer because they are a sworn officer and therefore do not lie or behave in an appropriate way..... just remember people this is Kern County and I am actually surprised that this detentions officer was arrested. The only reason that I can think of is because the offense was male on male and we all know how this town thinks of homosexuals, unfortunately...

posted by HusbandMaterial on Jul 23, 2008 at 11:55 AM

A shiny new nickel is wagered here that Officer Tafoya will deny the solicitation and say the inmate contrived the accusation to avoid the work or to try and smear an officer of the law.

Right now you just don't know who is telling the truth unless there are other inmates or officers who know the truth.  Back around 1978, when Ronald Reagan was governor of California, an initiative was on the ballot to fire and/or prohibit gays and lesbians from teaching school.  Gov. Reagan came out against the initiative on the grounds that any child could (and many would, have and did) make up stories about a teacher coming on to them for the purpose of getting rid of the teacher, regardless of the teacher's sexual orientation.  This proposal was called the Briggs Initiative and was RESOUNDINGLY defeated because Californians understood that children will behave like children.

Well, if the lessons of society have taught us anything, it's that incarcerate criminals will say just about anything to effect a change in their situation. Lying to people about their experience in prison or about the details of their criminal activity is the topic of an endless number of popular television dramas. Those depictions reflect the truth of what prisoners will do and say.

So, unless someone can bear witness on behalf of the inmate, there's not a lot of credibility standing by to support this charge.

posted by AudreyB on Jul 23, 2008 at 12:04 PM

I never cease to be amazed at the number of men who willingly jeopardize the best job they'll ever get for a bj

I think their "little brain" does all the thinking.

posted by HusbandMaterial on Jul 23, 2008 at 12:10 PM

cghuston wrote: "The only reason that I can think of is because the offense was male on male and we all know how this town thinks of homosexuals, unfortunately..."

What not only Bakersfield, but most of the world doesn't understand, is that forced or extorted sex is not just rape, but the perpetrator's sexual orientation is almost exclusively heterosexual.  Straight men who are inclined to do this kind of thing will do so to establish dominance and to humiliate the victim, not to seek casual sexual gratification.  This is especially notable among prison inmates, but history from the Judeo-Christian world documents the practice of wholesale sexual abuse by heterosexual soldiers of enemy soldiers and heterosexual males of foreigners or strangers to their community.  So, yeah, you can call it a homosexual sex, but homosexuals don't engage in sex to humiliate or dominate their partner. This case  is a clear accusation of exploiting an inmate's subservient status in an act of domination.

posted by Tiffanilynn on Jul 23, 2008 at 12:11 PM

i couldnt agree more aud. i like your picture!

posted by AudreyB on Jul 23, 2008 at 12:15 PM

Tiff

Thanks.  It was taken from my back yard one cloudy morning.  

I caution you, Tiffany, against using a real picture of yourself.  It can come back to bite you, especially since you're young and cute.   Use care, dear.

posted by Tiffanilynn on Jul 23, 2008 at 12:24 PM

ill take your advise i believe im going to change that... thanks =)

posted by timec on Jul 23, 2008 at 12:41 PM

Kern County Crooks at it again.....they did their homework before they arrested this man..trust me.....

 

posted by OldBlue56 on Jul 23, 2008 at 12:46 PM

I would almost guarantee you that the investigators had the inmate wear a recording/listening device, (wire), and the detentions officer hung himself talking. Watch and see.

posted by GrizzlyCoach on Jul 23, 2008 at 12:54 PM

Another reason to follow the law.

posted by timec on Jul 23, 2008 at 12:56 PM

I agree

They have concrete evidence against this rent-a-cop

posted by VirgilAnderson on Jul 23, 2008 at 01:02 PM

What a Freak! Does this sort of thing happen often in B-town?

--virgil

posted by timec on Jul 23, 2008 at 01:05 PM

I will answer yes....Kern County is full of a bunch of pervs.

But the teachers are the worst......sleeping with students, cooking meth in the high school lab......what a shame!

 

posted by AudreyB on Jul 23, 2008 at 01:08 PM

More often than it should.  Our detentions department was neglected for a while.  It needs to be totally revamped with strong managment and dedicated officers who actually want a career in detentions rather than a jumping off place for other jobs in LE.

Someone in LE can correct me if I'm wrong.

posted by VirgilAnderson on Jul 23, 2008 at 01:10 PM

Yeah, I've read about some of that stuff - it is a shame. So much of that kind of wierdness seems to be concentrated there. Maybe the weather has something to do with it.

posted by AudreyB on Jul 23, 2008 at 01:14 PM

It doesn't happen here any more than anywhere else, Maggie.

posted by VirgilAnderson on Jul 23, 2008 at 01:25 PM

Audrey -

I don't know....? It seems you read about something weird or demented just about everyday in the local paper - Foster parents who abuse; inept social service workers/depts.; old men getting beat to death by 13 year olds; teachers having sex with their minor students only to be outed by the 20 year old boyfriend (what happened to the boyfriend - got what he wanted, I suppose) .. etc.

--virgil

posted by VirgilAnderson on Jul 23, 2008 at 01:33 PM

In fact, wasn't the Assistant DA murdered a few years ago over something like stalking of someone's boy  by the Assistant DA himself?

 

posted by timec on Jul 23, 2008 at 01:36 PM

Is Virgil Maggie?

How funny.....I don't care...... I like Virgil....

posted by AudreyB on Jul 23, 2008 at 01:38 PM

Old Blue

If the victim was wired for sound to catch the DO, that means the DO tried it more than once.   Why would he go back to the same well if it came up dry the first time.

posted by OldBlue56 on Jul 23, 2008 at 01:38 PM

virgil, where do you live, in the Ozarks? Don't you follow the news in any other city? Or do you only read The Enquirer?

posted by OldBlue56 on Jul 23, 2008 at 01:41 PM

Audrey, my educated guess is the investigators set it up so the two would be alone somewhere, and with them watching and recording, the inmate brought it up, as instructed. It would certainly not be the first time Internal Affairs guys did that.

posted by NancyII on Jul 23, 2008 at 01:41 PM

He wasn't stalking...he had a relationship with the boy.  He kept the kid out of jail and the kid...uh...well I'm not sure what the kid did in return but it no one was stalking.  The kid was killed in an auto accident in a car the ADA let him use.  The kids father killed the ADA..as most of us parents would have wanted to do.

posted by VirgilAnderson on Jul 23, 2008 at 01:42 PM

Mr. Blue -

I didn't know the story about Kern's Assistant DA was in the Enquirer. I read in the pages of the Californian.

--virgil

posted by NancyII on Jul 23, 2008 at 01:46 PM

Virgil..if you read it, at least try to get it right.

posted by VirgilAnderson on Jul 23, 2008 at 01:47 PM

I think it was reported that the Father confronted the DA about the ADA relationship with the boy. It appeared he had a ultimate concern for his child the ADA had contempt for.

--virgil

 

posted by timec on Jul 23, 2008 at 01:48 PM

Our crooked assistant DA Tauzer was murdered by Chris Hillis because Tauzer was obsessed with his son......aka Tauzer was gay and sleeping with Chris's son ...so ...Chris killed him...

Tauzer was the DA that withheld pertinent information in the Bruce Sons case...that is why Sons is a free man....

 

posted by NancyII on Jul 23, 2008 at 01:50 PM

The father had more than one confrontation with the ADA.  I don't think anyone would describe the ADA's attention to the boy as "contempt."   He was obsessed with him (from the family) and the kid used that to get what he wanted.  (most peoples opinion.)

edited

posted by timec on Jul 23, 2008 at 01:53 PM

Blue - Nancy - Audrey

Why are all of you being do rude to Virgil? All he is doing is asking a question...Is it because you think he is black or is it because you guys think he is Maggie...?

posted by OldBlue56 on Jul 23, 2008 at 01:59 PM

timec, I challenge you to show ANY proof that Tauzer was gay and he and Lance Hillis slept together. True, Chris Hillis "says" Tauzer admitted to it, but this is the same person who committed the murder, and he made this comment after Tauzer was dead. I await your proof.

 

posted by VirgilAnderson on Jul 23, 2008 at 02:00 PM

Nancy -

Respectfully, the ADA's attention was mis-guided by his insinuations between the boy and his father. The grieved father then murdered arguably one of the most politically influential individuals in your County at the time. The perpetrator of the crime agreed to a ten sentence from a DA notorious for being tough on criminals.

ugliness! There was not even a public trial. It seemed no one screamed for one, either.

 

 

posted by NancyII on Jul 23, 2008 at 02:00 PM

Timec..

1.  The page is colorless so I have no idea what color virgils skin is nor do I care.

2...I'm not the one who thought virgil was maggie, I have no idea who he is nor do I care.

3.   Virgil's question was sarcastic and incorrect.  He immediately showed he knew the story when corrected which shows his sarcasm.

4.   We're in agreement about the Son's case and Tauzers involvement.

5.   LOL...spam code this time is BS GAS

posted by OldBlue56 on Jul 23, 2008 at 02:01 PM

No, timec, it's because I think he's ignorant. And this isn't the first blog that I've thought that.

posted by NancyII on Jul 23, 2008 at 02:03 PM

OB, this discussion was going on within the family prior to the murder according to a close family member .  (not mine but a friend.)

I'd have felt the same way if I was trying to get my son straigtened out and an ADA kept interfering by enabling him.

posted by AudreyB on Jul 23, 2008 at 02:08 PM

Timec

he's either Maggie or Panfilio.

If you weren't blogging under your name I would have added your name to the list.

My antennae comes up whenever someone starts the "Bakerfield is the armpit of the world" spiel.   There is a SHORT list of people on here who hate Bakersfield and everything she stands for.   I just look for the usual list of suspects.

That should clear up the question of why you "like" VirgilAnderson.    You two have a lot in common.

  BTW  wasn't it racist of you to assume that Anderson is a black man just because his name is Virgil?

 

posted by OldBlue56 on Jul 23, 2008 at 02:11 PM

Nancy, I'm not saying it wasn't suspected that something physical happened between Tauzer and Hillis, because I have my own suspicions about that. But timec said it like it was a fact, so I challenged her prove it. Of course, we know she can't.

posted by NancyII on Jul 23, 2008 at 02:12 PM

Hey !  My maiden name is Anderson.  I take exception to that.  I don't know what I take exception to but if Timec can take exception to everything, so can I.  Now..what is it we're objecting too this time?  Somebody clue me in.

posted by VirgilAnderson on Jul 23, 2008 at 02:13 PM

Respectfully you guys -

I have know idea who panfilio or maggie are. That you Nancy for the validation of my point about the over- involvement of the ADA - it's a shame a situation like that got to the point it did.

--virgil

posted by NancyII on Jul 23, 2008 at 02:15 PM

You're right OB.   I think there was a letter or a note found that Tauzer had written to Lance but memory fails me there.  As in all cases unless I see it with my own eyes, it's speculation using the best available information. 

I also think, ultimitely, EVERYONE wanted that one swept under the carpet as quickly as possible.

posted by Tiffanilynn on Jul 23, 2008 at 02:16 PM

ok everyone what case are we talking about now?! this is WAY off topic.

 

and if virgil is maggie... or panfillo then they have multiple personality disorders. and which in that case we have more to worry about then what name they are blogging under today.

posted by AudreyB on Jul 23, 2008 at 02:18 PM

Tiff

To paraphrase Maggie "BINGO"

posted by timec on Jul 23, 2008 at 02:23 PM

OB

Do you have any proof that he was not gay.....He was gay.....Chris was an ex cop he murdered this man for a reason.....not because he was helping his Lance out... His son was weak minded (due to drugs) and Tauzer took advantage. 

Timec's Proof

He was roommates with Ed Jagels.....Enough said..

 

OB, How much money does Ed make? If you divorced your wife would you go live with Donnie Youngblood.....I don't think so...unless....you two were....well you get it.

posted by AudreyB on Jul 23, 2008 at 02:27 PM

A lot of loose talk going on here.  Libelous talk.

posted by OldBlue56 on Jul 23, 2008 at 02:31 PM

timec, I'm not the one who said Tauzer was gay or he wasn't. YOU DID. Where did you get this proof?

posted by randomfactor on Jul 23, 2008 at 02:33 PM

Audrey, if you mean regarding Tauzer, you can't libel the dead.

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