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"content": "\u003cp>Former \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/rohnert-park\">Rohnert Park\u003c/a> police officer Joseph Huffaker was found guilty on Friday in San Francisco federal court of six counts, including conspiracy, extortion, falsifying records and impersonating a federal officer to seize marijuana from motorists on Highway 101, according to the U.S. attorney’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The jury deliberated for about 90 minutes before reaching a unanimous verdict. During closing arguments on Friday, prosecutors focused on phone records that placed Huffaker — who illegally stopped motorists to steal their marijuana as part of a conspiracy with other officers — at the scene of one of the suspicious stops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The defense strategy was to blame Brendon “Jacy” Tatum, Huffaker’s former partner, who testified during the trial, among others. The jury was not swayed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the verdict, Huedell Freeman, one of the victims of the seizure scheme, said he had goosebumps. Huffaker is scheduled to be sentenced Oct. 15.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It does feel like there’s a small measure of justice,” he said. “And I’m gratified that the jury was able to sort through the facts, because there was a lot of obfuscation put up by the defense, which is their job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m really gratified and feel happy that — finally — justice for the unfairly much-maligned cannabis farmer is finally being served. I mean, they made us out to be rich people that needed to be robbed, and we are not that. We are anything but that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richard Ceballos, Huffaker’s attorney, declined to comment, as did Assistant U.S. Attorney Abraham Fine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seven years ago, KQED \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11673412/highway-robbery-drivers-allege-rohnert-park-police-illegally-seized-cannabis-cash\">first reported on a string of allegations\u003c/a> from drivers who said Rohnert Park cops, operating far outside the city’s limits, had unlawfully seized hundreds of pounds of cannabis during pretextual traffic stops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As recreational marijuana became legal in 2018, growers who had operated in the grey area of the medical cannabis market finally felt safe to come forward. Huffaker’s trial promises a rare window into how local and federal officials responded to long-silenced complaints of police corruption.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This has been a long time coming, and it is a very important case,” said Izaak Schwaiger, a defense and civil rights attorney who filed a lawsuit over the unlawful seizure scheme.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said taking the case to trial demonstrates “the government’s willingness to start holding people accountable in a real sense — people who were given a free pass for so long precisely because they were cops.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11897846\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11897846 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/IMG_8039-scaled-e1737145446662.jpg\" alt=\"A man wearing a face mask and business suit walks into a building.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sgt. Brendon “Jacy” Tatum walks into the Phillip Burton Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse in San Francisco on Dec. 1, 2021. \u003ccite>(Sukey Lewis/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Shortly after KQED published its investigation in 2018, Tatum resigned. The city moved to terminate Huffaker but later \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11735983/probe-into-rohnert-park-cannabis-and-cash-seizures-will-stay-secret-despite-transparency-law\">agreed to a settlement\u003c/a>, ensuring that an internal affairs investigation into the interdiction team would remain secret, despite a new police transparency law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city of Rohnert Park has since \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11802870/rohnert-park-payouts-set-to-top-1-8-million-over-marijuana-and-cash-seizures\">paid out more than $1.8 million\u003c/a> to settle civil lawsuits over the seizures. A \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11889861/ex-rohnert-park-cops-indicted-on-federal-extortion-conspiracy-charges-linked-to-marijuana-seizures\">federal grand jury indicted\u003c/a> Huffaker and Tatum in September 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two months later, Tatum \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11897845/ex-rohnert-park-cop-pleads-guilty-to-conspiracy-to-commit-extortion\">pleaded guilty\u003c/a> to conspiracy to commit extortion under “color of law,” falsifying records in a federal investigation and tax evasion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike Tatum, Huffaker chose to fight the charges, backed by the police union’s legal defense fund, according to court filings and documents reviewed by KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the past four years, Huffaker has gone through at least seven different lawyers, including Chris Shea of Marin, who died unexpectedly just two weeks before Huffaker was set for trial in October 2023. Huffaker’s latest defense attorney, Richard Ceballos of Ferrone Law Group, said he can not comment on his client’s case until after the trial is over. The U.S. attorney’s office also declined to comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s always been this gnawing feeling that these guys are still walking free,” said Freeman, who received a settlement from Rohnert Park. “They’ve never done any time for the crime.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even with extensive public scrutiny, the lawsuits and a federal indictment, this case continues to present surprises. In February, KQED discovered that Sonoma County Code Enforcement had busted Tatum for a large indoor marijuana grow on his Santa Rosa property. In March, prosecutors dropped one of the charges against Huffaker. And then in May, a new witness — a coconspirator who said he sold stolen weed on the officers’ behalf — was added to the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Brady’ cop\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>One of the key witnesses expected to take the stand is Tatum, whose plea deal includes an agreement to testify against his former partner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tatum was the sergeant in charge of Rohnert Park’s interdiction team, which oversaw the seizure of $3.6 million under civil asset forfeiture laws and at least 2.5 tons of marijuana between 2013 and 2018, according to documents obtained and analyzed by KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2015, Rohnert Park’s mayor formally recognized Tatum for his drug suppression efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11864661\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11864661\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS31347_IMG_3562-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS31347_IMG_3562-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS31347_IMG_3562-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS31347_IMG_3562-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS31347_IMG_3562-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS31347_IMG_3562-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Rohnert Park police officers Brendon Jacy Tatum and Joseph Huffaker are facing federal charges tied to alleged illegal stops and seizures of cash and marijuana along Highway 101. \u003ccite>(Adam Grossberg/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But alongside the apparent success of the interdiction team, complaints about Tatum’s tactics and his \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11701249/ex-cops-credibility-is-key-question-in-federal-suit-against-rohnert-park\">credibility began to mount\u003c/a>. By 2016, the Sonoma County District Attorney’s office had placed him on its “Brady list” — a list of officers with known integrity issues. When Tatum takes the stand, Ceballos will likely introduce materials from his record to impeach his testimony.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s a habitual liar,” said Schwaiger, who gave the DA evidence of Tatum’s dishonesty, which led to his placement on the list of problem cops. But Schwaiger said that in this case, Tatum’s testimony will be backed up by hard evidence. “So, I don’t think that the case is made or lost on the testimony of any given witness,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tatum has spent the past four years out of custody awaiting sentencing, which is currently scheduled for September. While under pretrial supervision, KQED discovered that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12022803/exclusive-ex-rohnert-park-cop-faces-few-consequences-illegal-cannabis-grow\">Tatum was fined by Sonoma County code enforcement\u003c/a> in 2024 for a large indoor cannabis grow on his property. Federal officials declined to comment on whether this violated the terms of Tatum’s $100,000 bond agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Proffer admissions\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In February 2022, court documents show that Huffaker sat down with the FBI and admitted that he and Tatum had “agreed to extort drivers under color of official right for marijuana in December of 2017, that they committed multiple such extortions, that Defendant expected to receive money from these extortions, and that he knew his acts were criminal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046906\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046906\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250702-JOSEPHHUFFAKERTRIAL-17-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250702-JOSEPHHUFFAKERTRIAL-17-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250702-JOSEPHHUFFAKERTRIAL-17-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250702-JOSEPHHUFFAKERTRIAL-17-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign for Rohnert Park on Commerce Boulevard in Rohnert Park on July 2, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Huffaker made these admissions during a proffer interview — part of a plea process in which defendants offer information to the government in exchange for leniency. But in this case, the negotiations “fell apart,” court records show, and Huffaker walked away from the deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Senior District Judge Maxine Chesney has allowed the government to use Huffaker’s statements during the proffer interview and to internal affairs as rebuttal evidence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is not clear yet if Huffaker will take the stand, but if he does, Schwaiger said these “prior statements” are likely to be introduced.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A last-minute witness\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In the final month leading up to trial, prosecutors also introduced a new witness in their case against Huffaker: a man named William Timmins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Timmins told the FBI that he saw Huffaker with Tatum around Dec. 4, 2017, and that he’d “assisted in unloading and loading of approximately 100 to 200 pounds of marijuana on the side of the highway,” according to court filings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046768\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12046768 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/FBIJacketGetty1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1330\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/FBIJacketGetty1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/FBIJacketGetty1-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/FBIJacketGetty1-1536x1021.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Rohnert Park police officer Joseph Huffaker is on trial in San Francisco federal court, where prosecutors say he admitted to the FBI that he conspired to extort marijuana from drivers during traffic stops on Highway 101. \u003ccite>(Sebastian Barros/Nur Photo via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Timmins also said it was his job to sell the stolen cannabis and that he’d split the proceeds with Tatum, court records show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The defense filed a motion to exclude Timmins’s testimony, noting that the FBI interviewed Timmins at least four times in the past two years and that his story has changed. It wasn’t until May 2025 that Timmins admitted his involvement in the scheme and told the FBI that he’d seen Huffaker on the side of the road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The judge will allow Timmins to testify. Court filings indicate he has been granted immunity in exchange for his testimony.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Dropped charge\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Another witness long expected to testify for the prosecution is Texas resident Zeke Flatten. Flatten was the first driver to come forward and tell independent journalist Kym Kemp that on Dec. 5, 2017, officers claiming to work for the ATF — the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives — stole three pounds of cannabis from him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Kemp began to ask around, court records show that Tatum and Huffaker met at Huffaker’s house and used his wife’s computer to draft a press release claiming responsibility for the Dec. 5, 2017, traffic stop. But the incident report details were all wrong: the make and model of the car, the amount of cannabis and even the presence of Tatum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The press release, written to cover up one incident, actually contained the accurate details of a different seizure and traffic stop that took place on Dec. 18, 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ They issued a press release after the fact regarding the seizure, but got all of the details wrong because they were unlawfully seizing too many people to keep track of everyone,” Schwaiger said. “It’s like these cops — nobody questioned them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the beginning, Flatten has said that Tatum was not one of the officers who pulled him over. He has said Huffaker was there along with another older white man, both wearing green uniforms without name tags and large “POLICE” insignias. That man has never been identified and Huffaker later claimed he was not a part of Flatten’s stop.[aside postID=news_11673412 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31344_IMG_3493-qut-672x372.jpg']Flatten’s complaints, filed with local, state and federal law enforcement, sparked public scrutiny and the FBI investigation that ultimately led to Tatum and Huffaker’s indictment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Flatten’s case is hard to boil down into a tidy story. In March, prosecutors dropped Flatten as a witness and dropped one of the extortion charges initially filed against Huffaker related to the Dec. 5, 2017, stop. At the time, Flatten said he was disappointed he wouldn’t get the chance to face Huffaker in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“After this many years and this much time put into it and very much life altering,” Flatten said. “And it’s not like I created something out of the air that didn’t happen. These guys were really doing it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, in another twist, the defense added Flatten to\u003cem> its \u003c/em>witness list in June. In court filings, Ceballos argued that excluding Flatten from the case would confuse the jury. He also claimed that federal prosecutors dropped Flatten because he was a “paid FBI informant,” which hadn’t been disclosed. Flatten said he did work as an undercover informant for the FBI many years ago, but was not working as an informant on Dec. 5, 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Judge Chesney has yet to rule on whether or not Flatten can take the stand.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Brothers in blue?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Court filings show that the federal prosecution plans to focus on a single traffic stop — the one on Dec. 18, 2017, that Huffaker and Tatum conflated with Flatten’s stop on Dec. 5, 2017. However, more than two tons of cannabis were seized during the years that Tatum ran Rohnert Park’s interdiction task force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Huffaker and Tatum pulled over Freeman on Dec. 29, 2016, and took 47 pounds of cannabis that he had grown legally in Mendocino County, for which he had documentation. The day after the stop, Freeman said he called Rohnert Park and spoke to Sgt. Eric Matzen, who assured him that he’d be able to get his property back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046903\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046903\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250702-JOSEPHHUFFAKERTRIAL-05-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250702-JOSEPHHUFFAKERTRIAL-05-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250702-JOSEPHHUFFAKERTRIAL-05-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250702-JOSEPHHUFFAKERTRIAL-05-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign for the Rohnert Park Police Station on July 2, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A few days later, Freeman’s attorney also contacted the city, but the department never returned his property, and his complaints were never investigated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I lived in terror for two years after that,” Freeman said. “They bankrupted me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matzen is listed as a witness for the prosecution, along with a handful of other command staff and records personnel from the Rohnert Park Public Safety Department, including former chief Brian Masterson, who retired in the wake of the scandal.[aside postID=news_12022803 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/5452-HALL-RD-RETURN-W-PIC_Page_4-1020x680.jpg']Four other officers took part in cannabis seizures alongside Tatum: Matthew Snodgrass, Nicholas Miller, Chris Snyder and Chris Medina.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Snodgrass is now a lieutenant for Rohnert Park. Snyder and Miller are deputies with the Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office. Medina worked for the Burlingame Police Department before returning to Rohnert Park, where he worked until 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Initially, when Huffaker was set to go to trial in 2023, these men were on the prosecution’s witness list, court filings show. Now, if called, they will be witnesses for the defense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schwaiger said he hopes the outcome of this case sends the message “ to people who wear the uniform and the badge, that this is not a license to rob, to steal, to kill, to hurt people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Freeman said he will be attending the trial and hopes for a guilty verdict.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ I feel bad about anybody that has to do time, but sometimes people deserve it,” he said. “I mean, they, really, really did incredible damage to a lot of people’s faith in law enforcement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the verdict, Huedell Freeman, one of the victims of the seizure scheme, said he had goosebumps. Huffaker is scheduled to be sentenced Oct. 15.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It does feel like there’s a small measure of justice,” he said. “And I’m gratified that the jury was able to sort through the facts, because there was a lot of obfuscation put up by the defense, which is their job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m really gratified and feel happy that — finally — justice for the unfairly much-maligned cannabis farmer is finally being served. I mean, they made us out to be rich people that needed to be robbed, and we are not that. We are anything but that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richard Ceballos, Huffaker’s attorney, declined to comment, as did Assistant U.S. Attorney Abraham Fine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seven years ago, KQED \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11673412/highway-robbery-drivers-allege-rohnert-park-police-illegally-seized-cannabis-cash\">first reported on a string of allegations\u003c/a> from drivers who said Rohnert Park cops, operating far outside the city’s limits, had unlawfully seized hundreds of pounds of cannabis during pretextual traffic stops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As recreational marijuana became legal in 2018, growers who had operated in the grey area of the medical cannabis market finally felt safe to come forward. Huffaker’s trial promises a rare window into how local and federal officials responded to long-silenced complaints of police corruption.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This has been a long time coming, and it is a very important case,” said Izaak Schwaiger, a defense and civil rights attorney who filed a lawsuit over the unlawful seizure scheme.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said taking the case to trial demonstrates “the government’s willingness to start holding people accountable in a real sense — people who were given a free pass for so long precisely because they were cops.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11897846\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11897846 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/IMG_8039-scaled-e1737145446662.jpg\" alt=\"A man wearing a face mask and business suit walks into a building.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sgt. Brendon “Jacy” Tatum walks into the Phillip Burton Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse in San Francisco on Dec. 1, 2021. \u003ccite>(Sukey Lewis/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Shortly after KQED published its investigation in 2018, Tatum resigned. The city moved to terminate Huffaker but later \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11735983/probe-into-rohnert-park-cannabis-and-cash-seizures-will-stay-secret-despite-transparency-law\">agreed to a settlement\u003c/a>, ensuring that an internal affairs investigation into the interdiction team would remain secret, despite a new police transparency law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city of Rohnert Park has since \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11802870/rohnert-park-payouts-set-to-top-1-8-million-over-marijuana-and-cash-seizures\">paid out more than $1.8 million\u003c/a> to settle civil lawsuits over the seizures. A \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11889861/ex-rohnert-park-cops-indicted-on-federal-extortion-conspiracy-charges-linked-to-marijuana-seizures\">federal grand jury indicted\u003c/a> Huffaker and Tatum in September 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two months later, Tatum \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11897845/ex-rohnert-park-cop-pleads-guilty-to-conspiracy-to-commit-extortion\">pleaded guilty\u003c/a> to conspiracy to commit extortion under “color of law,” falsifying records in a federal investigation and tax evasion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike Tatum, Huffaker chose to fight the charges, backed by the police union’s legal defense fund, according to court filings and documents reviewed by KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the past four years, Huffaker has gone through at least seven different lawyers, including Chris Shea of Marin, who died unexpectedly just two weeks before Huffaker was set for trial in October 2023. Huffaker’s latest defense attorney, Richard Ceballos of Ferrone Law Group, said he can not comment on his client’s case until after the trial is over. The U.S. attorney’s office also declined to comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s always been this gnawing feeling that these guys are still walking free,” said Freeman, who received a settlement from Rohnert Park. “They’ve never done any time for the crime.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even with extensive public scrutiny, the lawsuits and a federal indictment, this case continues to present surprises. In February, KQED discovered that Sonoma County Code Enforcement had busted Tatum for a large indoor marijuana grow on his Santa Rosa property. In March, prosecutors dropped one of the charges against Huffaker. And then in May, a new witness — a coconspirator who said he sold stolen weed on the officers’ behalf — was added to the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Brady’ cop\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>One of the key witnesses expected to take the stand is Tatum, whose plea deal includes an agreement to testify against his former partner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tatum was the sergeant in charge of Rohnert Park’s interdiction team, which oversaw the seizure of $3.6 million under civil asset forfeiture laws and at least 2.5 tons of marijuana between 2013 and 2018, according to documents obtained and analyzed by KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2015, Rohnert Park’s mayor formally recognized Tatum for his drug suppression efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11864661\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11864661\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS31347_IMG_3562-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS31347_IMG_3562-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS31347_IMG_3562-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS31347_IMG_3562-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS31347_IMG_3562-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS31347_IMG_3562-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Rohnert Park police officers Brendon Jacy Tatum and Joseph Huffaker are facing federal charges tied to alleged illegal stops and seizures of cash and marijuana along Highway 101. \u003ccite>(Adam Grossberg/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But alongside the apparent success of the interdiction team, complaints about Tatum’s tactics and his \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11701249/ex-cops-credibility-is-key-question-in-federal-suit-against-rohnert-park\">credibility began to mount\u003c/a>. By 2016, the Sonoma County District Attorney’s office had placed him on its “Brady list” — a list of officers with known integrity issues. When Tatum takes the stand, Ceballos will likely introduce materials from his record to impeach his testimony.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s a habitual liar,” said Schwaiger, who gave the DA evidence of Tatum’s dishonesty, which led to his placement on the list of problem cops. But Schwaiger said that in this case, Tatum’s testimony will be backed up by hard evidence. “So, I don’t think that the case is made or lost on the testimony of any given witness,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tatum has spent the past four years out of custody awaiting sentencing, which is currently scheduled for September. While under pretrial supervision, KQED discovered that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12022803/exclusive-ex-rohnert-park-cop-faces-few-consequences-illegal-cannabis-grow\">Tatum was fined by Sonoma County code enforcement\u003c/a> in 2024 for a large indoor cannabis grow on his property. Federal officials declined to comment on whether this violated the terms of Tatum’s $100,000 bond agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Proffer admissions\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In February 2022, court documents show that Huffaker sat down with the FBI and admitted that he and Tatum had “agreed to extort drivers under color of official right for marijuana in December of 2017, that they committed multiple such extortions, that Defendant expected to receive money from these extortions, and that he knew his acts were criminal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046906\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046906\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250702-JOSEPHHUFFAKERTRIAL-17-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250702-JOSEPHHUFFAKERTRIAL-17-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250702-JOSEPHHUFFAKERTRIAL-17-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250702-JOSEPHHUFFAKERTRIAL-17-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign for Rohnert Park on Commerce Boulevard in Rohnert Park on July 2, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Huffaker made these admissions during a proffer interview — part of a plea process in which defendants offer information to the government in exchange for leniency. But in this case, the negotiations “fell apart,” court records show, and Huffaker walked away from the deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Senior District Judge Maxine Chesney has allowed the government to use Huffaker’s statements during the proffer interview and to internal affairs as rebuttal evidence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is not clear yet if Huffaker will take the stand, but if he does, Schwaiger said these “prior statements” are likely to be introduced.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A last-minute witness\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In the final month leading up to trial, prosecutors also introduced a new witness in their case against Huffaker: a man named William Timmins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Timmins told the FBI that he saw Huffaker with Tatum around Dec. 4, 2017, and that he’d “assisted in unloading and loading of approximately 100 to 200 pounds of marijuana on the side of the highway,” according to court filings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046768\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12046768 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/FBIJacketGetty1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1330\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/FBIJacketGetty1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/FBIJacketGetty1-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/FBIJacketGetty1-1536x1021.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Rohnert Park police officer Joseph Huffaker is on trial in San Francisco federal court, where prosecutors say he admitted to the FBI that he conspired to extort marijuana from drivers during traffic stops on Highway 101. \u003ccite>(Sebastian Barros/Nur Photo via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Timmins also said it was his job to sell the stolen cannabis and that he’d split the proceeds with Tatum, court records show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The defense filed a motion to exclude Timmins’s testimony, noting that the FBI interviewed Timmins at least four times in the past two years and that his story has changed. It wasn’t until May 2025 that Timmins admitted his involvement in the scheme and told the FBI that he’d seen Huffaker on the side of the road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The judge will allow Timmins to testify. Court filings indicate he has been granted immunity in exchange for his testimony.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Dropped charge\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Another witness long expected to testify for the prosecution is Texas resident Zeke Flatten. Flatten was the first driver to come forward and tell independent journalist Kym Kemp that on Dec. 5, 2017, officers claiming to work for the ATF — the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives — stole three pounds of cannabis from him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Kemp began to ask around, court records show that Tatum and Huffaker met at Huffaker’s house and used his wife’s computer to draft a press release claiming responsibility for the Dec. 5, 2017, traffic stop. But the incident report details were all wrong: the make and model of the car, the amount of cannabis and even the presence of Tatum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The press release, written to cover up one incident, actually contained the accurate details of a different seizure and traffic stop that took place on Dec. 18, 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ They issued a press release after the fact regarding the seizure, but got all of the details wrong because they were unlawfully seizing too many people to keep track of everyone,” Schwaiger said. “It’s like these cops — nobody questioned them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the beginning, Flatten has said that Tatum was not one of the officers who pulled him over. He has said Huffaker was there along with another older white man, both wearing green uniforms without name tags and large “POLICE” insignias. That man has never been identified and Huffaker later claimed he was not a part of Flatten’s stop.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/sonoma-county\">Sonoma County\u003c/a> code inspectors discovered a large illegal indoor cannabis operation on the property of former Rohnert Park Sgt. Brendan Jacy Tatum last year, according to records recently obtained by KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tatum is free on a $100,000 bond while awaiting sentencing for federal extortion, tax evasion and conspiracy charges connected to a string of marijuana seizures he conducted as a police officer, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11673412/highway-robbery-drivers-allege-rohnert-park-police-illegally-seized-cannabis-cash\">first reported by KQED in 2018\u003c/a>. Tatum \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11897845/ex-rohnert-park-cop-pleads-guilty-to-conspiracy-to-commit-extortion\">pleaded guilty\u003c/a> in 2021 and is expected to testify at the trial of Joseph Huffaker, his former partner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This looks bad, especially with my case being for the same issue,” Tatum told officials during the March 27, 2024, inspection, internal documents obtained by KQED show. “I made a mistake, I know. I’m just trying to make some money and get things squared away for my family before I go to prison.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tatum’s defense attorney, Stuart Hanlon, said his client was renting out a large barn on his multi-acre Santa Rosa property, but “he did not know they were growing pot.” According to Hanlon, Tatum “immediately reported” the enforcement action to his pretrial services officer, Josh Libby. In a phone call with a KQED reporter, Libby said he could not speak to the media. The United States Attorney’s office declined to comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county cited both Tatum and his tenant, Kylie Bradley Hargis, for cannabis violations, documents show. Hargis could not immediately be reached for comment. Neither Hargis nor Tatum faced criminal action or further investigation, according to Sonoma County officials. Tatum paid a $7,500 fine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11897846\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11897846\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/IMG_8039-scaled-e1737145446662.jpg\" alt=\"A man wearing a face mask and business suit walks into a building.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sgt. Brendan “Jacy” Tatum walks into the Phillip Burton Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse in San Francisco on Dec. 1, 2021. \u003ccite>(Sukey Lewis/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I personally know Tatum to have ruined the lives of dozens and dozens and dozens of marijuana farmers out there,” said defense and civil rights attorney Izaak Schwaiger, who represented many of Tatum’s victims. He said it is hard to see the lack of consequences as anything other than preferential treatment. “ At some point, the system has zero integrity if they refuse to follow through and put the hammer on this guy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is the latest twist in a legal saga that’s dragged on for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beginning in 2013, Tatum was on Rohnert Park’s drug interdiction and civil asset forfeiture task force, which seized around $3.6 million and at least 2.5 tons of marijuana over five years. He was promoted to sergeant and honored as the “officer of the year” by Rohnert Park city leaders, even as whispers that Tatum \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11701249/ex-cops-credibility-is-key-question-in-federal-suit-against-rohnert-park\">didn’t play by the rules\u003c/a> began to mount.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11889861 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS31332_IMG_2713-qut-1.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2018, KQED reported on the allegations of eight motorists who claimed Tatum and his partners had unlawfully seized marijuana and cash from them during pretextual traffic stops. The city ultimately paid over \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11802870/rohnert-park-payouts-set-to-top-1-8-million-over-marijuana-and-cash-seizures\">$1.8 million\u003c/a> in 2020 to settle a civil lawsuit with plaintiffs who alleged officers were acting like an organized crime ring by taking 330 pounds of marijuana from them and seizing $55,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2021, Tatum and Huffaker were \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11889861/ex-rohnert-park-cops-indicted-on-federal-extortion-conspiracy-charges-linked-to-marijuana-seizures\">indicted\u003c/a> by a federal grand jury for allegedly using their authority as police officers to extort people, taking large quantities of cannabis “without reporting or checking the seized property into evidence, or documenting or reporting the stop and seizure.” Huffaker has maintained his innocence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tatum and Huffaker were among the first former peace officers to be officially \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11890615/newsom-signs-law-to-strip-badges-from-bad-officers\">decertified under a California law\u003c/a> that went into effect in January 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an email, Huffaker’s attorney said his client “looks forward to proving his innocence.” As part of Tatum’s plea deal, he is expected to testify against Huffaker at trial, which, after numerous delays, is scheduled to begin in July.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of Tatum’s victims, a Texas resident named Zeke Flatten, said it was hard to imagine how the former drug interdiction specialist could fail to notice cannabis cultivation on his own property. If federal prosecutors and pretrial services were notified and did nothing, Flatten said, “they betrayed me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I should have been made aware of this as a victim,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tatum’s lawyer said the March 27, 2024, inspection was the result of “ a complaint about a chicken coop” and that the discovery of the cannabis was incidental.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12023922\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12023922\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250123-RohnertParkCop-02-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250123-RohnertParkCop-02-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250123-RohnertParkCop-02-BL-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250123-RohnertParkCop-02-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250123-RohnertParkCop-02-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250123-RohnertParkCop-02-BL-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250123-RohnertParkCop-02-BL-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The property of Brendan “Jacy” Tatum, a former sergeant with the Rohnert Park Public Safety Department’s drug interdiction team, in Santa Rosa, California, on Jan. 23, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>However, the \u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/5452-HALL-RD-RETURN-W-PIC.pdf\">application (PDF)\u003c/a> for the warrant shows that code enforcement officer Todd Hoffman had acquired aerial footage of Tatum’s property and saw evidence of cannabis cultivation, including large AC units running on a “relatively cool [53 degrees Fahrenheit] spring morning.” He also noted obscured windows “presumably to stop the entry of light and create a vestibule entryway,” another hallmark of indoor cannabis cultivation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hoffman’s declaration details additional unpermitted construction, but it is largely focused on suspected cannabis violations. Hoffman cited Tatum’s federal conviction related to “a series of traffic stops and marijuana robberies” and attached Tatum’s federal indictment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sonoma County Superior Court Judge Shelly J. Averill signed the \u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/130-240-055-5452-HALL-RD-WARRANT.PDF.pdf\">inspection warrant (PDF)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Code enforcement officials were accompanied by a Sonoma County deputy sheriff to search Tatum’s Santa Rosa property. Tatum told inspectors that “the front barn was being rented out to an acquaintance for the purpose of growing cannabis,” according to documents, and that he did not have the key. The barn’s electricity was supplied through an unpermitted trench running from Tatum’s 6,000-square-foot agricultural structure.[aside postID=news_11802870 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/Rohnert-Park-Jacy-Tatum-Questionable-Marijaua-Cash-Seizures-Highway-101.jpg']“I could smell the strong odor of cannabis,” Hoffman noted in documents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At some point, Hargis arrived to let inspectors into the barn, where three rooms for cultivating cannabis had been constructed. \u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/130-240-055-5452-HALL-RD-DECLARATION.PDF.pdf\">Inspectors found (PDF)\u003c/a> about 500 plants growing in one of the rooms, documents show. A second room had “an abundance of black trash bags full of recently harvested and dried stems.” The third, smaller room contained four or five large “mother plants” for the purpose of cloning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I mean, you don’t have a thousand marijuana plants so that you can treat glaucoma,” said Schwaiger, who questioned why the county didn’t bring charges against Tatum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Code enforcement manager Tyra Harrington said it’s county policy to treat cannabis cultivation as a land-use issue, not a criminal matter, even though state law still forbids the unlicensed commercial cultivation and sale of marijuana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harrington said her department does not investigate potential illicit cannabis sales or tax evasion issues. She pointed out that the sheriff was part of the inspection, and if they considered it “a criminal matter, they certainly would have taken action at the time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sgt. Juan Valencia, spokesperson for the sheriff’s office, said cannabis enforcement “has nothing to do with us” and that a deputy was present simply to provide security in case the property owner had guns or resisted in some way. He referred all questions to Harrington’s department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sonoma County District Attorney’s Office said in an email it did not receive “any police reports” about Tatum or Hargis’s cannabis violations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mr. Tatum told me that he was growing cannabis for the money and as well as renting out the trailers for the money,” Harrington said. She said she had no interaction with Hargis. Tatum removed the plants within one day and paid the fine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harrington said Tatum’s property is still out of compliance with other county codes. In March 2024, inspectors found a host of additional violations, including unpermitted barn extensions, electrical service to the agricultural barn and three travel trailers being used as housing. She said Tatum has been working with the code enforcement ombudsman and the building and planning department to try and bring everything into compliance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ I’m not a big fan of locking people up in boxes,” Schwaiger said. “But I’m a lot less of a fan of the hypocrisy attendant to this kind of a case where you have someone charged with enforcing the law and who has put countless people in jail for the exact same thing now profiting off of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That makes me want to puke.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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The city ultimately paid over \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11802870/rohnert-park-payouts-set-to-top-1-8-million-over-marijuana-and-cash-seizures\">$1.8 million\u003c/a> in 2020 to settle a civil lawsuit with plaintiffs who alleged officers were acting like an organized crime ring by taking 330 pounds of marijuana from them and seizing $55,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2021, Tatum and Huffaker were \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11889861/ex-rohnert-park-cops-indicted-on-federal-extortion-conspiracy-charges-linked-to-marijuana-seizures\">indicted\u003c/a> by a federal grand jury for allegedly using their authority as police officers to extort people, taking large quantities of cannabis “without reporting or checking the seized property into evidence, or documenting or reporting the stop and seizure.” Huffaker has maintained his innocence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tatum and Huffaker were among the first former peace officers to be officially \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11890615/newsom-signs-law-to-strip-badges-from-bad-officers\">decertified under a California law\u003c/a> that went into effect in January 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an email, Huffaker’s attorney said his client “looks forward to proving his innocence.” As part of Tatum’s plea deal, he is expected to testify against Huffaker at trial, which, after numerous delays, is scheduled to begin in July.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of Tatum’s victims, a Texas resident named Zeke Flatten, said it was hard to imagine how the former drug interdiction specialist could fail to notice cannabis cultivation on his own property. If federal prosecutors and pretrial services were notified and did nothing, Flatten said, “they betrayed me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I should have been made aware of this as a victim,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tatum’s lawyer said the March 27, 2024, inspection was the result of “ a complaint about a chicken coop” and that the discovery of the cannabis was incidental.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12023922\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12023922\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250123-RohnertParkCop-02-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250123-RohnertParkCop-02-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250123-RohnertParkCop-02-BL-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250123-RohnertParkCop-02-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250123-RohnertParkCop-02-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250123-RohnertParkCop-02-BL-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250123-RohnertParkCop-02-BL-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The property of Brendan “Jacy” Tatum, a former sergeant with the Rohnert Park Public Safety Department’s drug interdiction team, in Santa Rosa, California, on Jan. 23, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>However, the \u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/5452-HALL-RD-RETURN-W-PIC.pdf\">application (PDF)\u003c/a> for the warrant shows that code enforcement officer Todd Hoffman had acquired aerial footage of Tatum’s property and saw evidence of cannabis cultivation, including large AC units running on a “relatively cool [53 degrees Fahrenheit] spring morning.” He also noted obscured windows “presumably to stop the entry of light and create a vestibule entryway,” another hallmark of indoor cannabis cultivation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hoffman’s declaration details additional unpermitted construction, but it is largely focused on suspected cannabis violations. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“I could smell the strong odor of cannabis,” Hoffman noted in documents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At some point, Hargis arrived to let inspectors into the barn, where three rooms for cultivating cannabis had been constructed. \u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/130-240-055-5452-HALL-RD-DECLARATION.PDF.pdf\">Inspectors found (PDF)\u003c/a> about 500 plants growing in one of the rooms, documents show. A second room had “an abundance of black trash bags full of recently harvested and dried stems.” The third, smaller room contained four or five large “mother plants” for the purpose of cloning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I mean, you don’t have a thousand marijuana plants so that you can treat glaucoma,” said Schwaiger, who questioned why the county didn’t bring charges against Tatum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Code enforcement manager Tyra Harrington said it’s county policy to treat cannabis cultivation as a land-use issue, not a criminal matter, even though state law still forbids the unlicensed commercial cultivation and sale of marijuana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harrington said her department does not investigate potential illicit cannabis sales or tax evasion issues. She pointed out that the sheriff was part of the inspection, and if they considered it “a criminal matter, they certainly would have taken action at the time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sgt. Juan Valencia, spokesperson for the sheriff’s office, said cannabis enforcement “has nothing to do with us” and that a deputy was present simply to provide security in case the property owner had guns or resisted in some way. He referred all questions to Harrington’s department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sonoma County District Attorney’s Office said in an email it did not receive “any police reports” about Tatum or Hargis’s cannabis violations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mr. Tatum told me that he was growing cannabis for the money and as well as renting out the trailers for the money,” Harrington said. She said she had no interaction with Hargis. Tatum removed the plants within one day and paid the fine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harrington said Tatum’s property is still out of compliance with other county codes. In March 2024, inspectors found a host of additional violations, including unpermitted barn extensions, electrical service to the agricultural barn and three travel trailers being used as housing. She said Tatum has been working with the code enforcement ombudsman and the building and planning department to try and bring everything into compliance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ I’m not a big fan of locking people up in boxes,” Schwaiger said. “But I’m a lot less of a fan of the hypocrisy attendant to this kind of a case where you have someone charged with enforcing the law and who has put countless people in jail for the exact same thing now profiting off of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That makes me want to puke.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Two former Rohnert Park Department of Public Safety police officers were arraigned Friday on federal charges including extortion and conspiracy in connection with marijuana seizures made in 2016 and 2017. Both officers entered not guilty pleas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2018, KQED first reported on a string of motorists who alleged then-Sgt. Brendan Jacy Tatum and his partner Joseph Huffaker unlawfully seized marijuana or cash from them during traffic stops along Highway 101.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Tatum and Huffaker are currently out of custody on bail, and the arraignment took place via Zoom due to COVID-19 restrictions, with U.S. Magistrate Judge Sallie Kim presiding. The charges they face come with a maximum sentence of 60 to 65 years if served consecutively.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/TatumHuffakerIndictment.pdf\">indictment\u003c/a> handed down by a federal grand jury on Tuesday alleges that the two abused their power as police officers to extort people during traffic stops by “claiming to be ATF [Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives] agents, threatening to arrest drivers” and then seizing their marijuana “without reporting or checking the seized property into evidence, or documenting or reporting the stop and seizure.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch4 style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11673412/highway-robbery-drivers-allege-rohnert-park-police-illegally-seized-cannabis-cash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">'Highway Robbery': Drivers Allege Rohnert Park Police Illegally Seized Cannabis, Cash\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/h4>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11673412/highway-robbery-drivers-allege-rohnert-park-police-illegally-seized-cannabis-cash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31344_IMG_3493-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11673412/highway-robbery-drivers-allege-rohnert-park-police-illegally-seized-cannabis-cash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read KQED's 2018 investigation\u003c/a>: Nine drivers and several attorneys say Rohnert Park police officers have repeatedly conducted questionable traffic stops and illegally seized cash and marijuana.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Tatum’s lawyer declined to comment. Huffaker’s attorney, Heather Phillips, said in an email that she looks forward to presenting her defense “so that the entire story can be revealed and Mr. Huffaker's name can be cleared. He did not do this and we are confident that a neutral jury will see that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is easy to get an indictment, as the defendant and his attorney are not allowed to take part in the grand jury proceedings,” Phillips said. “It is solely a one-sided presentation of the prosecution's case, and the burden of proof is very low.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The indictment details six traffic stops Tatum made in 2016, either with Huffaker or with another officer, while he was head of a drug interdiction task force. These stops were recorded on police body cameras, but they were never documented in incident reports, according to the indictment. The indictment also says Tatum also failed to get destruction orders for the approximately 60 pounds of marijuana seized during the stops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11678122/documentation-missing-for-at-least-800-pounds-of-marijuana-seized-by-rohnert-park-police\">In 2018, KQED reported that destruction orders were missing for hundreds of pounds of marijuana seized by Rohnert Park officers.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the interdiction team was discontinued in late 2017, Tatum and Huffaker continued to seize marijuana from motorists, according to the indictment, but during this time they were out of uniform and posing as ATF agents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The indictment alleges that the two would then sell the seized marijuana for cash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tatum also faces tax evasion charges. The indictment alleges that he used cash to buy cashier’s checks for the purchase a $46,835 fishing boat, and that he and his family members deposited a total of $396,224 in various bank accounts in increments of less than $10,000 that were never reported as taxable income. Bank deposits of $10,000 and up are automatically reported to the federal government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tatum left the Rohnert Park Department of Public Safety in June 2018 after KQED reported on the allegations against him. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11681642/rohnert-park-police-chief-to-retire-amid-questions-over-seized-marijuana-and-cash\">police chief\u003c/a> and a number of Tatum’s supervisors also retired that same year. Huffaker left the department in early 2019 under the conditions of a settlement agreement he reached with the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Another lawsuit is filed\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Zeke Flatten, the motorist who first came forward to independent reporter Kym Kemp in 2018 to say he had been robbed by police officers posing as ATF agents, filed a new lawsuit this month alleging that the conspiracy to seize and sell marijuana went far beyond Tatum and Huffaker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11864589,news_11678122,news_11681642,news_11706921\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31346_IMG_3556-1200x800.jpg\" heroLink=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/highway-robbery-series\" target=\"_blank\" label=\"More From 'Highway Robbery' Series\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flatten has long maintained that Tatum was not present when he was stopped on Dec. 5, 2017. The suit alleges that the man with Huffaker that day was actually a Mendocino County sheriff’s sergeant in charge of the county’s marijuana enforcement team named Bruce Smith.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suit alleges that on Dec. 22, 2017, Smith also seized 1,875 pounds of marijuana worth nearly $2 million from a “legally licensed distributor,” but “the seized cannabis has disappeared with no records proving it was destroyed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three other plaintiffs are suing Mendocino County along with Flatten. 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The charges they face come with a maximum sentence of 60 to 65 years if served consecutively.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/TatumHuffakerIndictment.pdf\">indictment\u003c/a> handed down by a federal grand jury on Tuesday alleges that the two abused their power as police officers to extort people during traffic stops by “claiming to be ATF [Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives] agents, threatening to arrest drivers” and then seizing their marijuana “without reporting or checking the seized property into evidence, or documenting or reporting the stop and seizure.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch4 style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11673412/highway-robbery-drivers-allege-rohnert-park-police-illegally-seized-cannabis-cash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">'Highway Robbery': Drivers Allege Rohnert Park Police Illegally Seized Cannabis, Cash\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/h4>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11673412/highway-robbery-drivers-allege-rohnert-park-police-illegally-seized-cannabis-cash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31344_IMG_3493-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11673412/highway-robbery-drivers-allege-rohnert-park-police-illegally-seized-cannabis-cash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read KQED's 2018 investigation\u003c/a>: Nine drivers and several attorneys say Rohnert Park police officers have repeatedly conducted questionable traffic stops and illegally seized cash and marijuana.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Tatum’s lawyer declined to comment. 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"content": "\u003cp>Two former Rohnert Park police officers are facing federal corruption charges of conspiracy, extortion, falsification of records and tax evasion, all tied to an alleged years-long scheme to pull over and rob people of cash and marijuana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brendon Jacy Tatum and Joseph Huffaker were assigned to Rohnert Park’s drug interdiction team at various times between 2015 and 2017, according to a federal criminal complaint unsealed Friday. The program was aimed at seizing illegal drugs and cash proceeds trafficked along the Highway 101 corridor. Over about four years, Rohnert Park Department of Public Safety officers seized $3.6 million and 2½ tons of marijuana, according to an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11735983/probe-into-rohnert-park-cannabis-and-cash-seizures-will-stay-secret-despite-transparency-law\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">analysis\u003c/a> of records from the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch4 style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11673412/highway-robbery-drivers-allege-rohnert-park-police-illegally-seized-cannabis-cash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">‘Highway Robbery’: Drivers Allege Rohnert Park Police Illegally Seized Cannabis, Cash\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/h4>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11673412/highway-robbery-drivers-allege-rohnert-park-police-illegally-seized-cannabis-cash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31344_IMG_3493-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11673412/highway-robbery-drivers-allege-rohnert-park-police-illegally-seized-cannabis-cash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read KQED's 2018 investigation\u003c/a>: Nine drivers and several attorneys say Rohnert Park police officers have repeatedly conducted questionable traffic stops and illegally seized cash and marijuana.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Cities and police departments can legally take people’s money and seize property if it’s tied to illegal activity through a process called civil asset forfeiture. The department gets to keep a cut of whatever they take, providing a monetary incentive to confiscate cash and make narcotics busts. Former Sgt. Jacy Tatum was in charge of the drug interdiction team and supervised asset forfeiture, according to the complaint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But not everything that Tatum and Huffaker seized was legal, the complaint alleges. A number of motorists had paperwork to prove they were transporting legal cannabis for testing or to medical marijuana dispensaries. But the officers took their cannabis product or cash anyway, and in some cases failed to properly document those seizures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federal criminal complaint alleges that Tatum extorted at least $3,700 in cash and “significant amounts of marijuana,” and was aided by Huffaker in at least one of the illegal stops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Tatum and other officers made no reports of the seizure, did not submit the marijuana or assets into evidence, and sought no destruction orders for the marijuana,” a press release from the Northern California U.S. Attorney’s Office says.\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003cbr>\nA KQED investigation in 2018 found that documentation for the destruction of about \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11678122/documentation-missing-for-at-least-800-pounds-of-marijuana-seized-by-rohnert-park-police\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">800 pounds of marijuana seized by Rohnert Park officers was missing\u003c/a> from court files.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal prosecutors charge that Tatum and Huffaker continued extorting motorists even after Rohnert Park ended its drug interdiction program in 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In December of that year, two men allegedly impersonated agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives when they pulled over Texas resident Zeke Flatten about 50 miles North of Rohnert Park and across the Mendocino County line. The FBI is charging Tatum and Huffaker in connection with this stop. Flatten said that Huffaker was there but Tatum was not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The officers didn’t identify themselves, but they took about $3,000 worth of marijuana Flatten was driving from a farm in Humboldt County to a lab in Santa Rosa, according to the complaint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Flatten didn’t go quietly. He reported the stop to Mendocino County law enforcement and the FBI. By early 2018, he’d also told his story to independent reporter Kym Kemp, who started \u003ca href=\"https://kymkemp.com/2018/02/11/outraged-one-mans-two-month-quest-from-the-fbi-to-the-atf-to-expose-what-he-says-are-corrupt-police-officers-in-mendocino-county/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">asking questions\u003c/a>.[aside postID=\"news_11678122,news_11681642,news_11706921\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31346_IMG_3556-1200x800.jpg\" heroLink=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/highway-robbery-series\" target=\"_blank\" label=\"More From 'Highway Robbery' Series\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tatum drafted a press release on Feb. 13, 2018, months after the Flatten stop, touting a large “black market” marijuana bust by Rohnert Park police. Tatum “then prepared a false police report to conceal his criminal activity,” according to federal prosecutors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Prior to February 13, 2018, TATUM told Commander J.T. that there was a female reporter up north writing articles linking a stop to the Mendocino County Sheriff’s office and the Hopland Tribal police,” the criminal complaint says. “Tatum clarified that it was actually an interdiction stop conducted by RPDPS and that he wanted to correctly identify the law enforcement agency responsible for the stop.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tatum didn’t write a police report on the Dec. 5 seizure until Feb. 20, and he recorded the amount of marijuana and other details from a different case in that report. The FBI’s investigation found probable cause that Tatum “falsified a report for the undocumented stop and seizure of marijuana from (Flatten) in order to conceal his and HUFFAKER’s actions during the stop and deflect negative media attention.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flatten said Friday that he hoped the federal prosecution would prompt officers to “come clean” and hold each other accountable for “the dishonor they did to themselves and their badge and their community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These guys are not going to get away with what they were doing,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Flatten’s case became public, more drivers started to come forward with accounts of shady encounters with Rohnert Park officers intent on seizing cash and marijuana during pretextual traffic stops. KQED and Kemp spoke to a total of nine people with similar stories in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11673412/highway-robbery-drivers-allege-rohnert-park-police-illegally-seized-cannabis-cash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">collaborative investigative report\u003c/a> published in summer of 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The criminal complaint details six traffic stops, four from 2016, the Flatten case, and another stop about two weeks later, on Dec. 18, 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tatum can be heard on body camera video telling one driver “there is no such thing as easy money” before the former officer illegally seized $3,700 in cash and $22,400 in marijuana, according to the complaint. Other than Huffaker, the charging document conceals the identities of other Rohnert Park officers who were with Tatum during the stops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Huedell Freeman was pulled over by the officers a year before Flatten, in December 2016. They took 47 pounds of medical cannabis from him. Now, he said he feels very satisfied with the announcement of criminal charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I did not have any idea that this journey would end up where it did,” he said. “I feel vindicated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flatten, Freeman, and seven other drivers sued Rohnert Park and all won settlements in the past year, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11802870/rohnert-park-payouts-set-to-top-1-8-million-over-marijuana-and-cash-seizures\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">totaling $1.8 million\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tatum and Huffaker are both charged with conspiracy to commit extortion under color of official right, which carries a maximum 20-year prison sentence. Tatum is further charged with falsifying records in a federal investigation and tax evasion, which carry a combined 25-year maximum sentence.[aside postID=\"news_11702984,news_11701249,news_11700572\" heroLink=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/highway-robbery-series\" target=\"_blank\" label=\"More on Ex-Sgt. Jacy Tatum\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors allege that in 2016, Tatum deposited hundreds of thousands of dollars into his and his wife’s bank accounts and bought a $46,000 fishing boat, totaling over $440,000 that wasn’t reported on the former officer’s tax returns. The cash deposits were all in amounts under $10,000, “in an apparent attempt to avoid banking laws requiring disclosure,” according to prosecutors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tatum’s cash deposits “decreased significantly” after he resigned from the Rohnert Park Department of Public Safety in 2018, according to the complaint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There's no greater responsibility for law enforcement than to abide by the oath of office and respect the constitutional rights of all people,” said Sid Patel, assistant special agent in charge for the FBI's San Francisco office. “And this was a serious breach of public trust.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rohnert Park city officials issued a statement saying that they cooperated with the FBI investigation and that they “do not tolerate” corruption among their police staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flatten alleges that the scheme went beyond the two officers who are now facing charges. 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"content": "\u003cp>Lawyers for the city of Rohnert Park have agreed to settle with a Texas man who \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11706921/lawsuit-rohnert-park-hopland-police-conspired-to-steal-cannabis-and-cash-on-highway-101\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sued the Police Department\u003c/a> last year over three pounds of legal marijuana seized from him during a 2017 traffic stop. The city will pay Zeke Flatten $415,000, according to his attorney, Izaak Schwaiger, pending approval of the City Council.[pullquote size=\"small\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Izaak Schwaiger, Plaintiffs' Attorney\"]'[W]e've got them dead to rights here.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The settlement represents \"the most expensive marijuana transaction for 3 pounds of cannabis in the history of the United States,” Schwaiger said. “Rohnert Park just paid $138,000 a pound of marijuana to settle this case with him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flatten’s suit accuses the involved officers of extortion, racketeering, obstruction of justice and money laundering. The allegations that a team of police officers operated like an organized crime ring are highly unusual, said civil rights attorney Schwaiger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As far as the RICO allegations, they're notoriously difficult to prove,” he said. “And we've got them dead to rights here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city is not admitting any wrongdoing in connection with the payout, Schwaiger said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assistant City Manager Don Schwartz said the settlement is pending approval by the City Council and the city’s insurance group. He said they will have to make that decision before the first payment is due Flatten in October.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Not only was this settlement a victory for my particular incident,” Flatten said in a phone interview Tuesday, “but also for all the other victims that never came forward or didn't even know who to approach to come forward.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flatten \u003ca href=\"http://kymkemp.com/2018/04/26/rohnert-park-police-officers-being-investigated-following-two-incidents-where-humboldt-county-cannabis-was-seized-under-suspicious-circumstances/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">was the first\u003c/a> of a string of motorists who spoke out last year \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11673412/highway-robbery-drivers-allege-rohnert-park-police-illegally-seized-cannabis-cash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">alleging a pattern\u003c/a> of unlawful cash and marijuana seizures by Rohnert Park police officers. A second man, Huedell Freeman, filed suit in December against the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Five more plaintiffs filed a lawsuit on Friday in connection with the city’s drug seizure program, alleging conspiracy, robbery, money laundering and racketeering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the plaintiffs, Joshua Surrat, alleges former officers Jacy Tatum and Joseph Huffaker pulled him over for no reason, placed him in handcuffs and took 26 pounds of legal cannabis bound for a Santa Cruz medical marijuana dispensary from the back of his truck.[aside postID=\"news_11673412,news_11678122,news_11735983\" label=\"'Highway Robbery' Series\" heroLink=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/highway-robbery-series\" target=\"_blank\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31347_IMG_3562-qut-1200x800.jpg\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Tatum then moved very close to Mr. Surrat’s face and said, ‘You don’t tell anyone about this either,’ ” the complaint says. “‘Not your lawyer, not the collective where the herb is going, no one. If we don’t hear from you, you won’t hear from us. If your lawyer comes calling asking around the department or anything like that, we will come up to your property in Ukiah. I bet we could find some more felonies if we came up there, huh?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dale Allen, Huffaker’s lawyer, said the traffic stops detailed in the new complaint were thoroughly documented by police. Allen said Huffaker “continues to maintain he was not the person who stopped Mr. Flatten.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tatum’s attorneys did not respond to requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The latest lawsuit also accuses police officials of failing to put in safeguards that would have prevented the officers’ unlawful activity. The city also profited from the cash seizures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schwaiger says that while the tentative settlement of Flatten’s case is important, the larger goal of these lawsuits is to reform the historically troubled Rohnert Park Department of Public Safety\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A federal jury \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11702984/federal-jury-rohnert-park-police-violated-couples-constitutional-rights\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">awarded\u003c/a> a Rohnert Park couple $145,000 in damages in November in a separate \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11701249/ex-cops-credibility-is-key-question-in-federal-suit-against-rohnert-park\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">case involving Tatum\u003c/a> illegally searching their home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a community that's suffered under their bad policing and it might now begin to turn around,” Schwaiger said. “And I don't want to be overly optimistic, but that is ultimately the goal in any kind of civil rights litigation, is to improve the communities that we live in and to protect everyone's rights.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schwartz said he couldn’t comment on the latest lawsuit, but he pointed to a third-party review of the department that “found we're providing a high level of service to our residents.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The officers that have been most closely associated with the marijuana interdiction concerns are no longer with the department,” Schwarz said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tatum, the former sergeant named in each of the lawsuits, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11678122/documentation-missing-for-at-least-800-pounds-of-marijuana-seized-by-rohnert-park-police\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">left the department\u003c/a> in June 2018 after the city launched an internal affairs investigation. Director Brian Masterson \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11681642/rohnert-park-police-chief-to-retire-amid-questions-over-seized-marijuana-and-cash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">retired\u003c/a> in August 2018. The city struck an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11735983/probe-into-rohnert-park-cannabis-and-cash-seizures-will-stay-secret-despite-transparency-law\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">agreement\u003c/a> to force out former officer Joseph Huffaker in March of this year. 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He and then-sergeant Jacy Tatum worked a stretch of highway near Cloverdale, a small town about 40 miles north of Rohnert Park. From 2013 through 2017, Rohnert Park officers seized $3.6 million and 2½ tons of marijuana, according to police records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city launched an internal probe into Tatum and Huffaker's activities after several drivers came forward \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11673412/highway-robbery-drivers-allege-rohnert-park-police-illegally-seized-cannabis-cash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">alleging\u003c/a> their seizures were unlawful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tatum left the department last June, and Huffaker was placed on administrative leave. Assistant City Manager Don Schwartz said the internal investigation wrapped up in July. 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"content": "\u003cp>The Rohnert Park Department of Public Safety is announcing revised policies aimed at tracking money and other evidence taken by police officers. The city says the changes come at the preliminary recommendation of a police policy consultant hired to investigate the department’s drug and cash seizures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the city faces yet another lawsuit in connection with those same seizures.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignleft\">\n\u003ch4 style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11673412/highway-robbery-drivers-allege-rohnert-park-police-illegally-seized-cannabis-cash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">‘Highway Robbery’: Drivers Allege Rohnert Park Police Illegally Seized Cannabis, Cash\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/h4>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11673412/highway-robbery-drivers-allege-rohnert-park-police-illegally-seized-cannabis-cash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31344_IMG_3493-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The suit filed Thursday in federal court alleges that Rohnert Park police officers violated the civil rights of a cannabis farmer. It is the second lawsuit to be filed against Rohnert Park since \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11673412/highway-robbery-drivers-allege-rohnert-park-police-illegally-seized-cannabis-cash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">KQED reported\u003c/a> on a series of allegations that Rohnert Park officers illegally seized marijuana and cash from them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rohnert Park Assistant City Manager Don Schwartz wrote in an email that the city cannot comment on pending litigation. He said that an internal investigation launched around April is ongoing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sergeant at the center of the allegations, Jacy Tatum, quit the department in June. In August, the director of the department, Brian Masterson, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11681642/rohnert-park-police-chief-to-retire-amid-questions-over-seized-marijuana-and-cash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">retired\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘Putting it on Paper’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to the allegations, the city also hired former Oakland Police Chief Howard Jordan to investigate the department’s drug and cash seizure practices and policies. Jordan’s full report has not yet been presented to the City Council, and he declined to comment because he is not authorized to speak about the investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Rohnert Park police Cmdr. Aaron Johnson said the following recommended policy changes are already underway:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Seized cash will be counted on camera.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>If cash seizure exceeds $1,000, a supervisor will do a verification count.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Documentation of the circumstances of the seizure\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Documentation of the names of people who have had property seized\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Hiring a second property technician\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Installing cameras in the property room\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Creating a room for evidence processing\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A new property and evidence packaging manual\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Johnson said these changes are primarily a clarification of the department’s written policy, as Jordan has recommended. Johnson said he and his fellow officers were already following the procedures laid out in the new policy for the most part.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Obviously, it is not a secret that there are a couple cases in which it didn’t happen, allegedly,” Johnson said. “It’s nice to have someone from the outside come in and say, ‘Hey, why don’t you try this language or change it this way so that it is crystal-clear in the event anyone ever had a question on how to do it’.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the past three to four months, Johnson said, the evidence clerk has also worked to inventory every piece of evidence in the department’s property room. He said nothing was missing.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">\u003cspan style=\"font-size: x-large\">‘I commend them for getting to Kindergarten Cop level with all this stuff’\u003c/span>\u003ccite>Izaak Schwaiger\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“I checked a homicide case from the ’80s,” Johnson said. “And I can’t tell you what the evidence was, but the clerk went right to the freezer, opened the freezer, pulled the envelope out and, lo and behold, there was evidence from the ’80s on a homicide case.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson would not directly address whether former Sgt. Tatum was operating outside the policies and procedures of the department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson said media scrutiny of “a few incidents” have tainted the whole department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We do a great job at providing excellent service to our community,” he said. “Unfortunately, this did not help us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mounting Litigation\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/5662973-HuedellComplaint.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lawsuit\u003c/a> filed Thursday stems from a Dec. 29, 2017, traffic stop. Then-Sgt. Tatum and Officer Joseph Huffaker pulled over Huedell Freeman as he was driving past Cloverdale, a small town about 40 miles north of Rohnert Park on the Mendocino-Sonoma County border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The complaint alleges that the officers unlawfully pulled Freeman over and seized 47 pounds of marijuana from the 60-year-old cannabis farmer. Freeman has said he was transporting his legally grown product to a legal dispensary in Southern California. He tried through his lawyer to recover his cannabis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11673823\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11673823 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31334_IMG_2735-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Huedell Freeman was pulled over by Rohnert Park Public Safety Officers on December 29, 2017.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31334_IMG_2735-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31334_IMG_2735-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31334_IMG_2735-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31334_IMG_2735-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31334_IMG_2735-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31334_IMG_2735-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31334_IMG_2735-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31334_IMG_2735-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31334_IMG_2735-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31334_IMG_2735-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Huedell Freeman was pulled over by Rohnert Park Public Safety officers on Dec. 29, 2017. \u003ccite>(Sukey Lewis/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The city never returned it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Freeman is suing for the value of the cannabis and for damages related to the allegedly unlawful stop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His attorney, Stephen Gallenson, said Freeman filed the suit because he wants to be made whole financially, but also because he wants to prevent this kind of thing from happening to someone else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is just outrageous conduct,” Gallenson said. “I think Hue feels that way, and he wanted to do something that would stop law enforcement, in this particular case Rohnert Park police department, from engaging in this behavior.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City officials said they could not comment on the lawsuit. Rohnert Park denied an earlier claim for damages Freeman filed with the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignleft\">\n\u003ch4 style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11678122/documentation-missing-for-at-least-800-pounds-of-marijuana-seized-by-rohnert-park-police\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">Records Missing for at Least 800 Pounds of Marijuana Seized by Rohnert Park Police\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/h4>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11678122/documentation-missing-for-at-least-800-pounds-of-marijuana-seized-by-rohnert-park-police\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/rohnertpot_final001-1180x631.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>A Texas resident named Zeke Flatten filed a lawsuit against Rohnert Park in November. That complaint alleges Rohnert Park officers conspired to steal 3 pounds of cannabis from him during a traffic stop. On Thursday, the city filed a \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/5657219-MotiontoDismissFlatten1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">motion to dismiss\u003c/a> the suit, denying Flatten’s claims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the attorneys representing Flatten, Izaak Schwaiger, said the department’s recent policy changes could signal a step in the right direction, but they’re long overdue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I mean, I commend them for getting to Kindergarten Cop level with all this stuff,” Schwaiger said. “That’s terrific. But if this is their best response to really compelling evidence that they’ve got a corrupt and criminal element within their organization, it’s never going to be enough.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>More Change on the Horizon?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another attorney who recently \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11702984/federal-jury-rohnert-park-police-violated-couples-constitutional-rights\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">won a case at trial\u003c/a> against Rohnert Park is also seeking to change the way the city’s police do business. A federal jury found in November that Tatum and two other officers violated a couple’s constitutional rights during a 2014 search of their home. The officers were looking for Elva and Raul Barajas’ adult son, who was on probation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The jury awarded the couple $70,000 in punitive damages against Tatum, who entered their home through the back door with his gun drawn as two other officers talked with Barajas at their front door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Barajas’ attorney, Arturo González, is seeking a court order that would require the department to create a written policy for probation searches, and additional training for officers doing probation searches.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11681642/rohnert-park-police-chief-to-retire-amid-questions-over-seized-marijuana-and-cash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rohnert Park Police Chief to Retire Amid Questions Over Seized Marijuana and Cash\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11701249/ex-cops-credibility-is-key-question-in-federal-suit-against-rohnert-park\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ex-Cop’s Credibility Is Key Question in Federal Suit Against Rohnert Park\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11702984/federal-jury-rohnert-park-police-violated-couples-constitutional-rights\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Federal Jury: Rohnert Park Police Violated Couple’s Constitutional Rights\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“They can’t be running in through the back door when the officers are knocking on the front,” González said. “They only should search the areas that the law allows them to search. And lastly, and this is important, they shouldn’t be conducting probation searches when nobody is home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The City is currently evaluating its options regarding the Barajas matter,” Assistant City Manager Schwartz wrote in an email. “We have no further comment at this time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A judge is set to hear arguments on the request for a court order in early January. González said he will also seek to recover about $500,000 in legal fees in connection with the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Looking Ahead\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city has also hired a new director of its public safety department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cmdr. Johnson was on the committee that hired Tim Mattos, the former police chief of Suisun City, to lead the department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mattos “seems like a phenomenal human being,” Johnson said. “And from everything I’ve heard, he’s all about the community. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The Rohnert Park Department of Public Safety is announcing revised policies aimed at tracking money and other evidence taken by police officers. The city says the changes come at the preliminary recommendation of a police policy consultant hired to investigate the department’s drug and cash seizures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the city faces yet another lawsuit in connection with those same seizures.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignleft\">\n\u003ch4 style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11673412/highway-robbery-drivers-allege-rohnert-park-police-illegally-seized-cannabis-cash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">‘Highway Robbery’: Drivers Allege Rohnert Park Police Illegally Seized Cannabis, Cash\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/h4>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11673412/highway-robbery-drivers-allege-rohnert-park-police-illegally-seized-cannabis-cash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31344_IMG_3493-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The suit filed Thursday in federal court alleges that Rohnert Park police officers violated the civil rights of a cannabis farmer. It is the second lawsuit to be filed against Rohnert Park since \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11673412/highway-robbery-drivers-allege-rohnert-park-police-illegally-seized-cannabis-cash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">KQED reported\u003c/a> on a series of allegations that Rohnert Park officers illegally seized marijuana and cash from them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rohnert Park Assistant City Manager Don Schwartz wrote in an email that the city cannot comment on pending litigation. He said that an internal investigation launched around April is ongoing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sergeant at the center of the allegations, Jacy Tatum, quit the department in June. In August, the director of the department, Brian Masterson, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11681642/rohnert-park-police-chief-to-retire-amid-questions-over-seized-marijuana-and-cash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">retired\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘Putting it on Paper’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to the allegations, the city also hired former Oakland Police Chief Howard Jordan to investigate the department’s drug and cash seizure practices and policies. Jordan’s full report has not yet been presented to the City Council, and he declined to comment because he is not authorized to speak about the investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Rohnert Park police Cmdr. Aaron Johnson said the following recommended policy changes are already underway:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Seized cash will be counted on camera.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>If cash seizure exceeds $1,000, a supervisor will do a verification count.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Documentation of the circumstances of the seizure\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Documentation of the names of people who have had property seized\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Hiring a second property technician\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Installing cameras in the property room\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Creating a room for evidence processing\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A new property and evidence packaging manual\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Johnson said these changes are primarily a clarification of the department’s written policy, as Jordan has recommended. Johnson said he and his fellow officers were already following the procedures laid out in the new policy for the most part.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Obviously, it is not a secret that there are a couple cases in which it didn’t happen, allegedly,” Johnson said. “It’s nice to have someone from the outside come in and say, ‘Hey, why don’t you try this language or change it this way so that it is crystal-clear in the event anyone ever had a question on how to do it’.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the past three to four months, Johnson said, the evidence clerk has also worked to inventory every piece of evidence in the department’s property room. He said nothing was missing.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">\u003cspan style=\"font-size: x-large\">‘I commend them for getting to Kindergarten Cop level with all this stuff’\u003c/span>\u003ccite>Izaak Schwaiger\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“I checked a homicide case from the ’80s,” Johnson said. “And I can’t tell you what the evidence was, but the clerk went right to the freezer, opened the freezer, pulled the envelope out and, lo and behold, there was evidence from the ’80s on a homicide case.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson would not directly address whether former Sgt. Tatum was operating outside the policies and procedures of the department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson said media scrutiny of “a few incidents” have tainted the whole department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We do a great job at providing excellent service to our community,” he said. “Unfortunately, this did not help us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mounting Litigation\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/5662973-HuedellComplaint.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lawsuit\u003c/a> filed Thursday stems from a Dec. 29, 2017, traffic stop. Then-Sgt. Tatum and Officer Joseph Huffaker pulled over Huedell Freeman as he was driving past Cloverdale, a small town about 40 miles north of Rohnert Park on the Mendocino-Sonoma County border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The complaint alleges that the officers unlawfully pulled Freeman over and seized 47 pounds of marijuana from the 60-year-old cannabis farmer. Freeman has said he was transporting his legally grown product to a legal dispensary in Southern California. He tried through his lawyer to recover his cannabis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11673823\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11673823 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31334_IMG_2735-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Huedell Freeman was pulled over by Rohnert Park Public Safety Officers on December 29, 2017.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31334_IMG_2735-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31334_IMG_2735-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31334_IMG_2735-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31334_IMG_2735-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31334_IMG_2735-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31334_IMG_2735-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31334_IMG_2735-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31334_IMG_2735-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31334_IMG_2735-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31334_IMG_2735-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Huedell Freeman was pulled over by Rohnert Park Public Safety officers on Dec. 29, 2017. \u003ccite>(Sukey Lewis/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The city never returned it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Freeman is suing for the value of the cannabis and for damages related to the allegedly unlawful stop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His attorney, Stephen Gallenson, said Freeman filed the suit because he wants to be made whole financially, but also because he wants to prevent this kind of thing from happening to someone else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is just outrageous conduct,” Gallenson said. “I think Hue feels that way, and he wanted to do something that would stop law enforcement, in this particular case Rohnert Park police department, from engaging in this behavior.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City officials said they could not comment on the lawsuit. Rohnert Park denied an earlier claim for damages Freeman filed with the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignleft\">\n\u003ch4 style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11678122/documentation-missing-for-at-least-800-pounds-of-marijuana-seized-by-rohnert-park-police\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">Records Missing for at Least 800 Pounds of Marijuana Seized by Rohnert Park Police\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/h4>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11678122/documentation-missing-for-at-least-800-pounds-of-marijuana-seized-by-rohnert-park-police\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/rohnertpot_final001-1180x631.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>A Texas resident named Zeke Flatten filed a lawsuit against Rohnert Park in November. That complaint alleges Rohnert Park officers conspired to steal 3 pounds of cannabis from him during a traffic stop. On Thursday, the city filed a \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/5657219-MotiontoDismissFlatten1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">motion to dismiss\u003c/a> the suit, denying Flatten’s claims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the attorneys representing Flatten, Izaak Schwaiger, said the department’s recent policy changes could signal a step in the right direction, but they’re long overdue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I mean, I commend them for getting to Kindergarten Cop level with all this stuff,” Schwaiger said. “That’s terrific. But if this is their best response to really compelling evidence that they’ve got a corrupt and criminal element within their organization, it’s never going to be enough.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>More Change on the Horizon?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another attorney who recently \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11702984/federal-jury-rohnert-park-police-violated-couples-constitutional-rights\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">won a case at trial\u003c/a> against Rohnert Park is also seeking to change the way the city’s police do business. A federal jury found in November that Tatum and two other officers violated a couple’s constitutional rights during a 2014 search of their home. The officers were looking for Elva and Raul Barajas’ adult son, who was on probation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The jury awarded the couple $70,000 in punitive damages against Tatum, who entered their home through the back door with his gun drawn as two other officers talked with Barajas at their front door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Barajas’ attorney, Arturo González, is seeking a court order that would require the department to create a written policy for probation searches, and additional training for officers doing probation searches.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11681642/rohnert-park-police-chief-to-retire-amid-questions-over-seized-marijuana-and-cash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rohnert Park Police Chief to Retire Amid Questions Over Seized Marijuana and Cash\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11701249/ex-cops-credibility-is-key-question-in-federal-suit-against-rohnert-park\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ex-Cop’s Credibility Is Key Question in Federal Suit Against Rohnert Park\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11702984/federal-jury-rohnert-park-police-violated-couples-constitutional-rights\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Federal Jury: Rohnert Park Police Violated Couple’s Constitutional Rights\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“They can’t be running in through the back door when the officers are knocking on the front,” González said. “They only should search the areas that the law allows them to search. And lastly, and this is important, they shouldn’t be conducting probation searches when nobody is home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The City is currently evaluating its options regarding the Barajas matter,” Assistant City Manager Schwartz wrote in an email. “We have no further comment at this time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A judge is set to hear arguments on the request for a court order in early January. González said he will also seek to recover about $500,000 in legal fees in connection with the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Looking Ahead\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city has also hired a new director of its public safety department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cmdr. Johnson was on the committee that hired Tim Mattos, the former police chief of Suisun City, to lead the department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mattos “seems like a phenomenal human being,” Johnson said. “And from everything I’ve heard, he’s all about the community. 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