CHP Officers Face Prison for Threatening Homeless Man
Two California Highway Patrol officers could face up to four years in prison for illegally imprisoning a 52-year-old homeless man and making threats against him.
Temujin Louis Jones, 32, and Edward Allen, 26, are scheduled for sentencing July 3 in Los Angeles Superior Court. They pleaded no contest Tuesday to three counts of false imprisonment and making terrorist threats against the man, who washed windshields in Culver City, said Deputy Dist. Atty. Gary A. Nielsen. Jones also pleaded no contest to one count of illegally using pepper spray.
They remain free on $100,000 bail pending sentencing.
The CHP has put the officers on administrative leave and is in the process of dismissing them, a spokesman said Wednesday.
The homeless man, who has asked not to be identified, has said the officers picked him up on several occasions between December and March, doused him with pepper spray and dropped him off about 15 miles away.
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