Sheriff’s employee in O.C. is indicted
A civilian employee of the Orange County Sheriff’s Department who allegedly has ties to a white supremacist gang has been indicted on charges of soliciting someone to commit a violent crime and providing confidential police records to unauthorized people, officials said Thursday.
Lissa Marie Domanic, 42, was working as an office specialist and 911 dispatcher when she allegedly asked someone to assault an Orange County jail inmate, said sheriff’s spokesman Jim Amormino.
She also allegedly used department computers to access confidential records that she forwarded to unauthorized people, Amormino said.
A grand jury indicted Domanic on the felony charges earlier this week, and she is awaiting arraignment in Orange County Superior Court.
Domanic, who has worked for the Sheriff’s Department about 19 months, has been placed on administrative leave pending a disciplinary review, Amormino said.
“We do a thorough background investigation, and nothing came up in her background,” he said. “Sometimes people are able to conceal things they are involved in.”
Sheriff’s investigators began looking at Domanic in May after receiving a tip about her from another law enforcement agency, Amormino said.
Among the things she is accused of doing is asking one inmate to assault another inmate and using department records to identify the housing location of the intended victim, Amormino said.
The assault did not occur, he said.
When sheriff’s investigators arrested Domanic at her Yorba Linda home earlier this week, she allegedly was under the influence of a controlled substance and in possession of methamphetamine, Amormino said.
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