| For Immediate Release February 20, 2007 |
Contact: Susan Kang Schroeder Public Affairs Counsel Office: 714-347-8408 Cell: 714-292-2718 |
SEAL BEACH JAIL WORKERS TO BE
ARRAIGNED ON CHARGES OF STEALING FROM INMATE AND FALSIFYING DOCUMENTS
WESTMINSTER – Three jail workers of the Seal Beach Jail will be arraigned tomorrow on charges of stealing from an inmate and then attempting to cover their tracks by manipulating documents. Victor Calzada Jr., 29, Stanton, Fred Madrigal, 21, West Covina, and Michael Navarro, 22, Bellflower, are charged with attempting to remove papers from a public office and falsifying documents. Calzada is also charged with removing documents from a public office, Navarro is charged with forgery, and both are charged with petty theft. If convicted, Calzada and Navarro face a maximum sentence of four years in prison and Madrigal faces three years and four months in prison. They are scheduled to be arraigned tomorrow, Wednesday February 21, 2007 at 8:30 a.m. in Department W-14, West Justice Center, Westminster.
Between August 30, 2006 and September 26, 2006, an inmate was transferred from the Seal Beach Jail to the Orange County Jail for failing to comply with a work release program. The defendants, who are private employees of the jail, are accused of taking a Sony Play Station belonging to the inmate and keeping it. They are accused of creating a receipt for multiple items, including the Play Station, to indicate that the items had been received by the victim’s mother. The defendants are accused of trying to cover up the theft by destroying the original receipt and creating a new one that did not list the Play Station to indicate that the item had never been included in the property returned to the inmate. They are then accused of forging the inmate’s mother’s signature on the fake receipt.
Senior Deputy District Attorney Carolyn Carlisle-Raines of the Felony Projects Unit is prosecuting this case.
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