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Personal Injury & Torts

Sep. 4, 2010

No Charges in Alleged Jail Beating

Prosecutors are refusing to seek charges against three deputies accused of pepper spaying a Twin Towers inmate's anus and genitals because they suspect the inmate fabricated the story.

By Brandon Ortiz

Daily Journal Staff Writer

LOS ANGELES - Prosecutors suspect a Los Angeles County inmate made up a story about being improperly pepper sprayed, and have refused to file charges against three accused deputy sheriffs.

Alejandro Franco, 25, alleges in a lawsuit that on Nov. 5, 2007, sherriff's deputies Anthony Pimental, Davie Chang and Kris Cordova removed him from his cell in handcuffs and took him to an outd...

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