SANTA CLARITA : Officer to Be Tried in Threat to Wife
A Los Angeles police officer from the North Hollywood Division was ordered Monday to stand trial on charges that he held his wife at gunpoint and threatened to kill her.
Officer Jeffery Jerome Carter, 39, is scheduled to be arraigned on Dec. 28 in San Fernando Superior Court on two counts of making terrorist threats and single counts of spousal abuse and assault with a deadly weapon. He faces a maximum sentence of more than 11 years in prison if convicted of all charges.
According to Deputy Dist. Atty. Lori Dery, Carter tried to choke his 31-year-old wife, Gail, after an argument in late September. About a month later, Carter confronted his wife at gunpoint in the garage of their Santa Clarita Valley home and threatened to kill her, Dery said.
Carter’s wife called sheriff’s deputies after he left for work the next day.
Carter and his wife have separated, court officials said. He is free on $100,000 bail and has been assigned to work at home on non-patrol duties pending an internal investigation.
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