About a year ago, a routine review of an Sacramento deputy sheriff dashboard camera videotapes found something odd. On one tape, Deputy Mike Vale could be seen pulling over a drunk driver, but instead of arresting her, he seemed to be taking his time talking and flirting with her and the passenger. Then he turned off his microphone, sent the drunk driver on her way, and brought her friend into his car.This strange incident set off an extensive internal investigation that would eventually lead to Vales’ guilty plea in a federal court last week to charges of violating the civil rights of four victims, and cyberstalking.
Before he was caught, he apparently had a practice of offering to tear up traffic tickets in exchange for sex acts and groping drunk drivers while they were handcuffed. In the example above, he took cell phone pictures of the woman naked in his squad car in exchange for letting her friend go. [continued below]....
Sacramento County Reviews
About a year ago, a routine review of an Sacramento deputy sheriff dashboard camera videotapes found something odd. On one tape, Deputy Mike Vale could be seen pulling over a drunk driver, but instead of arresting her, he seemed to be taking his time talking and flirting with her and the passenger. Then he turned off his microphone, sent the drunk driver on her way, and brought her friend into his car.This strange incident set off an extensive internal investigation that would eventually lead to Vales’ guilty plea in a federal court last week to charges of violating the civil rights of four victims, and cyberstalking.
Before he was caught, he apparently had a practice of offering to tear up traffic tickets in exchange for sex acts and groping drunk drivers while they were handcuffed. In the example above, he took cell phone pictures of the woman naked in his squad car in exchange for letting her friend go. [continued below]....