Long-coddled Sacramento County Sheriff’s Deputy Donald Black now accused of molesting teen

Donald Black,  a 23-year veteran of the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department, whose service record is most notable for numerous disciplinary actions and civil lawsuits costing the Sacramento County taxpayers  $400,000 to date -- and who has thus far eluded any actual prosecution, thanks to a DA's office who doesn't even care to investigate its own killer cops -- now stands accused of molesting a teen.

Arrested on suspicion of five counts of lewd and lascivious acts with a child 14 or 15 years old, Black now faces what he's never faced under DA Jan Scully's watch: actual prosecution by actual attorneys working with an actual police department.

Yes, even after Black and fellow deputies badly burned two men in police custody, resulting in a "civil lawsuit and an administrative claim that ultimately resulted in Sacramento County paying more than $300,000 in damages," DA Scully's Office, which supposedly investigated the incident, said there were “questions” but "not enough evidence" to criminally prosecute Black or his fellow deputies.

What a surprise.

Scully has yet to issue a comment on whether her office also knew that Black was molesting children.

But Nevada County isn't Sacramento County. Cops aren't given a free pass by DA to maim and kill anyone they like, without fear of investigation -- as we've covered here at length in our Jan Scully and killer cops sections.

Read the full article, below the fold.

Sacramento County law enforcement officers charged with “illegally buying and selling high-powered pistols”

With the grim-faced leadership of Sacramento’s law enforcement community looking on, federal officials described an elaborate scheme Friday that they say involved police and deputies illegally buying and selling dozens of high-powered pistols to make thousands of dollars in profit.

The case, which dates back to the summer of 2011, has ensnared at least four area law enforcement officers, including two Sacramento County sheriff’s deputies [Deputies Ryan McGowan, 31, and Thomas Lu, 42] charged in federal court Friday.

Sacramento Police Officer Brandon Mullock charged with 34 counts of perjury, falsifying police reports

 Mullock’s troubles began in January 2010, when he was accused of brandishing a gun during an off-duty fracas and put on administrative leave from the department. Eventually, he pleaded to a misdemeanor charge in that case.
While he was on paid leave, a deputy district attorney reviewing a DUI case noticed discrepancies between Mullock’s police report and footage from his patrol cruiser’s in-car camera.
That launched an extensive review by police officials and prosecutors into cases in which Mullock was the primary officer or a key witness.
Mullock resigned from the department in late August. In September, Scully announced her office had to dismiss 79 cases – most of them involving DUIs and some of them already adjudicated – because of questions about Mullock’s credibility. The dismissals resulted in the wiping of criminal records, repayment of court fees and the reinstatement of suspended driver’s licenses....