O.C. officer convicted of sexually assaulting 3 women he dated

A Garden Grove police officer was convicted Friday of sexually assaulting three women he had dated, according to the Orange County district attorney’s office.

Jesse Andrew Green, 36, of Huntington Beach, was an officer at the time of the assaults. He had been with the department since 2006, authorities said. From 2004 to 2006, Green had worked for the Calexico Police Department.

Green was found guilty of three felony counts of forcible sodomy. The jury was unable to reach a verdict on one felony count of rape.

He faces a maximum sentence of 24 years in state prison, authorities said, and will have to register as a sex offender for life.

Green dated the three victims between April 2006 and November 2009, while he was a police officer, according to a statement from the district attorney’s office. With each victim, Green became “suddenly aggressive” during consensual encounters. He physically restrained and forcibly sodomized the victims and made intimidating statements and told them that he had transmitted herpes or AIDS to them.

Charges were filed in October 2010 for sexual assault of two of the victims, authorities said. A third victim came forward after she saw the cases in the media, and more charges were filed.

The cases were investigated by the Huntington Beach Police Department and the Santa Ana Police Department.

Green is scheduled to be sentenced Nov. 22 in the Central Justice Center in Santa Ana.

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