Jail workers face charges they stole from inmate
Three Seal Beach Jail workers will be arraigned today on charges they stole a Sony PlayStation from an inmate and then manipulated documents to cover up the crime, authorities said Tuesday.
Victor Calzada, 29, Fred Madrigal, 21, and Michael Navarro, 22, all non-city employees, are accused of taking the video console in September 2006 from an inmate who was transferred from Seal Beach to the Orange County Jail for failing to comply with a work release program. Later, according to the charges, they created a bogus receipt falsely indicating that the item had been received by the inmate’s mother.
The name of the inmate has not been released. If convicted, authorities said, the three jail workers could each face more than three years in prison.
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