Two former LA County Sheriff’s deputies are facing federal charges alleging they violated the civil rights of a man at a skatepark by falsely imprisoning him and then obstructing justice to cover up the illegal detention.
were scheduled to appear in federal court Thursday to face charges in a separate case alleging they falsely imprisoned a 23-year-old skateboarder in their patrol car, which crashed during a subsequent chase, injuring the man., Miguel Vega, 32, and Christopher Hernandez, 37, obstructed justice in various ways to conceal and cover up the unlawful detention three years ago.
"The indictment alleges that these two deputies violated a young person's constitutional rights by willfully and illegally detaining him without just cause," U.S. Attorney Martin Estrada said in a statement. According to the indictment, after leaving the park, Vega, who was driving the LASD patrol vehicle with Hernandez in the front seat, allegedly told Alegria that the deputies were going to set him up and drop him in gang territory. Hernandez also said that Alegria would be beaten, prosecutors allege.
According to the indictment, after the collision, Vega reported over LASD radio that a person purportedly with a gun, whom Vega described as wearing clothes similar to Alegria's attire that day, had fled through the alley near 130th Street and Mona Boulevard.
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