Officer Held in Sex Crimes Bailed Out
Police Officer David Wayne Bryan, arrested Thursday on charges of sexually assaulting three local women, has been released from jail by Orange County Sheriff’s Department officials, who said Saturday that the officer had posted a $50,000 bond.
Sheriff’s Lt. Richard J. Olson said Bryan, 32, was freed at 5:46 p.m. Friday. He is scheduled to be arraigned in South Orange County Municipal Court on April 17.
Bryan has been on paid leave since January, when a 21-year-old woman complained that she had been the victim of a “date rape” by the officer.
After reading a newspaper report about the investigation of the officer, two other women came forward to accuse him.
One alleged that she had also been sexually assaulted by Bryan in January. The other said she had been sexually assaulted by the officer in 1989--while he was on duty and in uniform.
On Thursday, Bryan was arrested on nine felony charges and four misdemeanor charges of rape, sexual battery, assault and burglary.
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