A pair of former Orange County police officers are facing allegations of kidnapping and working as illegal bounty hunters.
A week after authorities say a woman escaped the suspect’s home, police released a photograph and said he may have committed other crimes.The video misidentified them as undercover police officers, the department said, when they were actually working as bail fugitive recovery agents, or bounty hunters. An investigation found that the two had not completed state requirements to work as bounty hunters and “were operating in that capacity unlawfully,” the department said in a statement.
“Our clients were trying to capture a violent fugitive and now they’re being charged with a kidnapping. It’s almost incomprehensible,” Stapleton said. Edward Welbourn, the defense attorney representing Pedersen, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.Pedersenfrom the Anaheim Police Department after a 2018 high-speed car chase during which he and his partner fired 76 shots at a suspect. The suspect, Eliuth Penaloza Nava, was killed and the city of Anaheim later paid a $2.9-million settlement to his family.over a drunk driving incident involving then-Fullerton City Manager Joseph Felz.
Corbett began working as a bail fugitive recovery agent with Bail Hotline Bail Bonds in October 2018 and completed all required training, according to Stapleton.
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