Deputy Pleads Not Guilty in 1995 Rape
A veteran Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy pleaded not guilty Monday to the 1995 rape of a Calabasas woman while on duty, and to sexually assaulting his wife three times, authorities said.
Harris Scott Mintz, 41, who had worked out of the Malibu-Lost Hills station, faces a maximum of 48 years in prison if convicted on all charges.
Sheriff’s investigators are continuing to probe allegations that the 10-year Sheriff’s Department employee may have committed other sexual assaults. He is being held on $1 million bail.
Mintz turned himself in at the station where he worked in November after a nearly yearlong investigation and after Los Angeles County had already paid the victim in the alleged on-duty rape $100,000 to settle her claim.
Just days after he was charged in that incident, authorities also charged Mintz with sexually assaulting his wife.
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