The Region - News from April 24, 1987

An Orange County sheriff’s deputy pleaded innocent to charges that he raped a suspect in a case he had been investigating. Deputy Robert Minty, 37, of Capistrano Beach is accused of raping a 20-year-old woman from Healdsburg, Calif., March 24 at a Midway City motel, said Lt. Richard J. Olson, a sheriff’s spokesman. The woman was a suspect in a case involving solicitation of magazine subscriptions without a license and theft of money from a magazine customer, Olson said. When the woman flew to Los Angeles to appear in court for her case, Minty met her at the airport and drove with her to a motel room he had rented, Olson said. The next day, she contacted a rape crisis hot line. In documents filed in court, Minty said the woman consented to sex.