A former Metropolitan Police Department officer near tribunal successful handcuffs Tuesday aft a justice ordered him to walk 30 days successful jailhouse for hugging and groping a pistillate portion connected duty.
“Filling a presumption arsenic a constabulary officer, you instrumentality connected a sedate work to the nationalist and it’s 1 successful which the nationalist spot is captious and that was afloat undermined successful this instance,” District Judge Eric Johnson said, calling the officer’s actions a “wanton misuse of his position.”
Manuel Ramangmou, 28, pleaded blameworthy past month to a gross misdemeanor number of oppression nether colour of office.
The plea was an Alford plea, which allows a suspect to support innocence portion acknowledging prosecutors person capable grounds to beryllium their case.
In the aboriginal hours of May 9, Ramangmou responded to the 3400 artifact of East Sunset Road, adjacent South Pecos Road, for a telephone astir a suspicious vehicle. There, helium recovered a pistillate named April Woolum sleeping successful a van.
She said she was surviving successful her van and agreed to leave.
Then, helium aboriginal admitted to detectives, helium turned disconnected his assemblage camera and approached her again to inquire if she was azygous and get “her accusation to hangout,” an apprehension study stated.
Ramangmou acknowledged hugging her successful a wooded country that helium selected due to the fact that it was hidden and asking her for a kiss, which she declined, the study said.
Woolum alleged that helium besides rubbed her buttocks. She told investigators that she was “shaking and terrified.” At a anterior hearing, she asked that helium beryllium ordered to service jailhouse time.
“He wanted sex. He was relentless,” Woolum said astatine a anterior hearing. “For astir the adjacent 3 months, I lived successful fear.”
Johnson’s condemnation was harsher than the condemnation prosecutors agreed to urge of recognition for the 1 time Ramangmou already served successful jailhouse and the probation condemnation defence lawyer Warren Geller requested.
The justice had antecedently warned attorneys that helium mightiness enforce jailhouse clip and gave Ramangmou the accidental to retreat his plea.
Geller said the erstwhile serviceman would alternatively spell guardant with the sentencing.
Johnson had besides raised concerns astir a condemnation successful the plea agreement: “The State agrees not to proceed connected the further crimes discovered successful his phone.”
Deputy District Attorney Julia Barker antecedently said the grounds connected the telephone showed 2 instances of soliciting prostitution involving big enactment workers, which would beryllium nonviolent misdemeanor offenses.
Geller said aft tribunal that helium was not definite prosecutors had probable origin to found that thing successful his telephone was a crime, but that helium did not person telephone records.
“Manny’s evidently precise remorseful astir what took spot and he’s looking guardant to starting a caller section of his life,” helium told a reporter.
Woolum did not talk successful tribunal Tuesday, but her lawyer Carl Arnold voiced support of Johnson’s determination aft the hearing.
“I deliberation that’s a conscionable condemnation that gives Ms. Woolum immoderate comfortableness to cognize that this justice took this lawsuit earnestly capable to springiness him immoderate clip successful custody and marque him bespeak connected his actions,” helium said.
Contact Noble Brigham astatine nbrigham@reviewjournal.com.
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