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CA - Former Sheriff's deputy in High Desert to face multiple sex charges

View the article here 02/19/2009 VICTORVILLE - A former sheriff's deputy will go to trial on charges that he sexually assaulted nearly a dozen women while he was on duty, asking several of them to bare their breasts like the "Girls Gone Wild" videotapes in exchange for lenience. Matthew Linderman, who was assigned to handle retail theft crimes in the High Desert, faces 28 counts, which include kidnapping, extortion, sexual battery, soliciting a bribe and soliciting a lewd act, involving women he encountered from 2005 to 2007. After listening to testimony from case investigators, Judge Larry Allen determined sufficient evidence existed to move forward with the case against Linderman at a hearing Thursday in Victorville Superior Court. In one case, Linderman arrested a woman after she allegedly stole products from a store at the Victor Valley Mall in July 2007...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Offender Issues on February 20, 2009 (boomark / email).