Ex-L.A. County deputy charged with felony gun threat, break-in
A former Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy charged with breaking into his ex-fiance's residence and threatening her boyfriend with a gun was arrested Thursday on a felony warrant, prosecutors said.
Reymundo Lainez, 42, was arrested without incident at his Pasadena home in connection with an incident last April while he was still a law enforcement officer, said Deputy Dist. Atty. Alfred Coletta.
Lainez was being held on $50,000 bail, charged with felony first-degree burglary with a person present, felony assault with a firearm, making a criminal threat and a misdemeanor count of battery.
According to prosecutors, Lainez broke into his former fiance's Pasadena residence while off-duty and pointed a gun at her boyfriend. Lainez then allegedly threatened the man and punched him.
If convicted, the former deputy faces up to 16 years in state prison.
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Typical, dirty LA cop.
Posted by: Sean Roaney | March 31, 2011 at 12:04 PM
....A thin line between a cop and a criminal.
Posted by: booklady2228 | March 31, 2011 at 12:06 PM
Two studies have found that at least 40% of police officer families experience domestic violence, in contrast to 10% of families in
the general population. P.H. Neidig, H.E. Russell, & A.F. Seng, Interspousal aggression in law enforcement families: A preliminary
investigation. Police Studies , Vol. 15 (1), p. 30-38 (1992); L.B. Johnson, On the front lines: Police stress and family well-being .
Hearing before the Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families House of Representatives: 102 Congress First Session May
20 (p. 32-48). Washington DC: US Government Printing Office (1991); M. Straus & R. Gelles, Physical violence in American families
- risk factors and adaptations to violence in 8,145 families . New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers (1990). A third study of
older and more experienced officers found a rate of 24%, indicating that domestic violence is 2-4 times more common among police
families than American families in general. P.H. Neidig, A.F. Seng, and H.E. Russell, "Interspousal Aggression in Law Enforcement
Personnel Attending the FOP Biennial Conference," National FOP Journal. Fall/Winter 1992, 25-28. Similarly disproportionately
high rates of DV occur in military households.
Posted by: WrathofGod | March 31, 2011 at 12:34 PM
"arrested...in connection with an incident last April while he was still a law enforcement officer...Lainez was being held on $50,000 bail"
Last April? Really!? Breaking and entering into an occupied residence, assault with a deadly weapon, threatening the new boyfriend's life, and battery. Nearly a year has elapsed until anyone begins to pursue a criminal complaint, and his bail is only $50K? If this were anyone else without a badge, this would be a very different story.
Posted by: Disgusted | March 31, 2011 at 01:12 PM
All police officers should be required to turn in their gun/s daily, at the end of the shift. The liability is far too significant for the city and its citizens - especially when guns are in the hands of rogue, drunk, trigger-happy cops with gang affiliations or shady off-duty activities.
Posted by: Common Sense | March 31, 2011 at 01:30 PM
Well all I can say is "He's lucky he's a peace officer, cause anyone else would have been charged with premedatated murder going in to anyone home with a gun!! is not a last minute thought- Hmmmm...... well we see how this plays out-
Posted by: corine duran | March 31, 2011 at 01:42 PM
Typical.... He will get probation, you all should know that DA and Police/Sheriff cozy up to each other. NO JUSTICE NO PEACE!!!!
Posted by: Nopeace | March 31, 2011 at 02:16 PM
Commonsense demonstrates why it is so uncommon. The thought of forcing cops to leave their weapons at their job sites and go home unarmed is beyond stupid. And what happens when the crooks they arrested follow them out of the police station? Shall they protect themselves with their good looks and charm?
Posted by: The Voice of Reason | April 01, 2011 at 11:24 AM
Posted by: The Voice of Reason- "The thought of forcing cops to leave their weapons at their job sites and go home unarmed is beyond stupid...Shall they protect themselves with their good looks and charm?"
Much in the same way the rest of us in LA are allowed to use little more than our good looks and charm for self-protection. If off-duty and retired "peace officers" are allowed to carry weapons for self-defence, why should the same right (to self-defence) not be extended to trained responsible citizens who would rather be prepared than be prey? Most places in California, and in ALL of Los Angeles, the "authorities" have decided that you don't need that right. Feel safer now?
Posted by: Disgusted | April 01, 2011 at 06:04 PM