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"content": "\u003cp>A federal jury found Thursday that Rohnert Park and three of its police officers violated the constitutional rights of Elva and Raul Barajas during a 2014 warrantless search of their home. Former officers David Rodriguez and Jacy Tatum and Officer Matthew Snodgrass argued the search was a routine compliance check on the couple’s adult son, Edgar Perez, who was on probation.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignleft\">\n\u003ch4 style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11701249/ex-cops-credibility-is-key-question-in-federal-suit-against-rohnert-park\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">Ex-Cop’s Credibility Is Key Question in Federal Suit Against Rohnert Park\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/h4>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11701249/ex-cops-credibility-is-key-question-in-federal-suit-against-rohnert-park\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS31332_IMG_2713-qut-1-1180x885.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The jury of eight men and women determined the search was illegal and awarded the Barajas couple $75,000 in damages and $70,000 in punitive damages against former Sgt. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11700572/ex-rohnert-park-police-officer-skips-court-because-kqed-might-be-there-we-were\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jacy Tatum\u003c/a>, who entered the residence through the back door with his gun drawn. The city will also have to pay the plaintiffs’ legal fees, according to their attorney, Arturo González.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The verdict concludes a four-day trial in U.S. District Court in San Francisco presided over by Magistrate Judge Sallie Kim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>González said he spoke to his client, Elva Barajas, as soon as he heard the verdict.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She began to cry,” he said. “She didn’t think that anybody would listen to her. She’s somebody who’s never gone to school at all, doesn’t speak English. … What this lawsuit shows is that at least in San Francisco, even humble people — if given the opportunity — can can get a jury to understand that they have rights.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In closing arguments Tuesday, Scott Lewis, the attorney for the City of Rohnert Park, said Elva Barajas’ anger was misplaced, and pointed out an individual conspicuously missing from the trial — her son, Edgar Perez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s never come to defend his mother,” Lewis said in closing arguments on Tuesday. “He’s never come to defend his father. He’s never come to defend this case.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lewis said the true cause of Elva Barajas’ pain and suffering was her son, not the police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Expectation of Privacy\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The jury \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11701249/ex-cops-credibility-is-key-question-in-federal-suit-against-rohnert-park\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">had to determine\u003c/a> if the search was unreasonable under the U.S. and California constitutions. While the terms of Perez’s probation did decrease his expectation of privacy, the judge said police are supposed to consider a number of factors before searching a home, including the probationer’s history of violence and the privacy rights of other people in the home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Let’s be clear. My clients have a right to privacy in their own home, even if their son is on probation,” González said. “They have a right to privacy in their own home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch4 style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11700572/ex-rohnert-park-police-officer-skips-court-because-kqed-might-be-there-we-were\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">Ex-Rohnert Park Police Officer Skips Court ‘Because KQED Might Be There’ (We Were)\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/h4>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11700572/ex-rohnert-park-police-officer-skips-court-because-kqed-might-be-there-we-were\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/tatum-screenshot.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Perez pleaded no contest in 2012 to a misdemeanor for resisting arrest after an altercation with Tatum and Rodriguez two years earlier. He was placed on three years’ probation. For two other incidents, Perez pleaded no contest to misdemeanor drug use and felony possession.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lewis argued that Perez’s history of drug use and probation violations made him a perfect candidate for the kind of search officers executed on Nov. 4, 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said it was up to the jury “to protect that very important community caretaking tool” of probation searches by finding for the officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>González acknowledged Perez’s addiction, but he argued that their son’s criminal history alone did not give police the authority to violate the constitutional rights of the Barajas couple in their home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are not here to say you can’t do probation searches,” González said. “It’s not what this case is about. You can do probation searches, but you have to do it in compliance with the law.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The jury agreed. González said he hopes other law enforcement agencies take note of this verdict.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If there are other agencies that are following the same policies or practices, they’ve got to change,” González said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Reasonableness\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The jury determined all the officers participated in an unreasonable search, but that only the actions of ex-cop Tatum amounted to negligence and a violation of privacy.\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>Tatum entered the home through the back door with his gun drawn. The jury awarded the Barajas couple $70,000 for his conduct alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>González said the city shouldn’t have to pay those punitive damages — because they’re meant as punishment specifically for Tatum’s conduct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Tatum is on the hook for that $70,000 award,” González said. “The city does not have to pay that. And in my opinion the city should not pay that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tatum stopped working for the city in June amid an internal investigation into suspicious seizures of marijuana and cash along Highway 101.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>City Liability\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a rare decision, the jury also found the City of Rohnert Park liable for violating the Barajases’ Fourth Amendment rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>González said the city encouraged a variety of constitutional violations through its policies and lack of training around probation searches, and the jury appears to have agreed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The City of Rohnert Park, we argued, has a number of different practices that are unlawful,” González said, noting that Department of Public Safety leadership testified in the case that the officers did nothing wrong. “Now a federal jury unanimously has found that they violated the state and the federal constitution. 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My clients have a right to privacy in their own home, even if their son is on probation,” González said. “They have a right to privacy in their own home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch4 style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11700572/ex-rohnert-park-police-officer-skips-court-because-kqed-might-be-there-we-were\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">Ex-Rohnert Park Police Officer Skips Court ‘Because KQED Might Be There’ (We Were)\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/h4>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11700572/ex-rohnert-park-police-officer-skips-court-because-kqed-might-be-there-we-were\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/tatum-screenshot.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Perez pleaded no contest in 2012 to a misdemeanor for resisting arrest after an altercation with Tatum and Rodriguez two years earlier. He was placed on three years’ probation. For two other incidents, Perez pleaded no contest to misdemeanor drug use and felony possession.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lewis argued that Perez’s history of drug use and probation violations made him a perfect candidate for the kind of search officers executed on Nov. 4, 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said it was up to the jury “to protect that very important community caretaking tool” of probation searches by finding for the officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>González acknowledged Perez’s addiction, but he argued that their son’s criminal history alone did not give police the authority to violate the constitutional rights of the Barajas couple in their home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are not here to say you can’t do probation searches,” González said. “It’s not what this case is about. You can do probation searches, but you have to do it in compliance with the law.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The jury agreed. González said he hopes other law enforcement agencies take note of this verdict.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If there are other agencies that are following the same policies or practices, they’ve got to change,” González said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Reasonableness\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The jury determined all the officers participated in an unreasonable search, but that only the actions of ex-cop Tatum amounted to negligence and a violation of privacy.\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>Tatum entered the home through the back door with his gun drawn. The jury awarded the Barajas couple $70,000 for his conduct alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>González said the city shouldn’t have to pay those punitive damages — because they’re meant as punishment specifically for Tatum’s conduct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Tatum is on the hook for that $70,000 award,” González said. “The city does not have to pay that. And in my opinion the city should not pay that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tatum stopped working for the city in June amid an internal investigation into suspicious seizures of marijuana and cash along Highway 101.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>City Liability\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a rare decision, the jury also found the City of Rohnert Park liable for violating the Barajases’ Fourth Amendment rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>González said the city encouraged a variety of constitutional violations through its policies and lack of training around probation searches, and the jury appears to have agreed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The City of Rohnert Park, we argued, has a number of different practices that are unlawful,” González said, noting that Department of Public Safety leadership testified in the case that the officers did nothing wrong. “Now a federal jury unanimously has found that they violated the state and the federal constitution. So that’s called ratification, and when a city ratifies misconduct, the city is liable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>González expects the city will file an appeal, and he intends to ask the court for an injunction, forcing Rohnert Park to change its probation search policies. A hearing on that injunction is scheduled for Jan. 7.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lewis, the city’s attorney, did not immediately respond to a request for comment. He previously said these officers all acted within the law, and probation searches like that of the Barajas’ home are essential for public safety.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Former Rohnert Park police Sgt. Jacy Tatum testified in a federal civil trial Wednesday, while he remains under a separate investigation probing the ex-drug cop’s credibility and his prolific seizures of cash and marijuana.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">\u003cstrong>‘He’s making this up as he goes along, and I know this because he’s done it before.’\u003c/strong>\u003ccite>Arturo González,\u003cbr>\nPlaintiffs’ attorney\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit filed against the city and three of its officers, including Tatum, by Elva and Raul Barajas in 2014 raises further questions about the Rohnert Park Department of Public Safety’s policies and oversight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The couple alleges that Tatum, now-retired Officer David Rodriguez and Officer Matthew Snodgrass illegally searched their home in 2014. Tatum entered through the home’s back door with his gun drawn, while the other officers talked with Raul Barajas at the front door. All three officers testified Wednesday that the search was a routine compliance check on the couple’s adult son, Edgar Perez, who was on probation.\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Mystery Informant\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The couple’s attorney, Arturo González, began by questioning Tatum about an earlier contact with Perez outside the same home in 2010. That incident ended with a physical fight between Perez, Tatum and Rodriguez, who used a Taser on Perez before taking him into custody.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>González wanted to know why Tatum approached Perez while he was playing catch outside the home with his younger brother. And why did his story about the arrest change?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Tatum’s original police report and later in testimony at criminal court, he said that he was driving by in his patrol car and stopped because he noticed Perez was sweaty and thought he was on drugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in federal court Wednesday, both Tatum and Rodriguez testified there was a different reason they contacted Perez: A criminal informant told Tatum he would take the then-officer to his drug dealer.\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\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Allegations of questionable traffic stops and illegally seized cash and marijuana by Rohnert Park police.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“I said hop in,” Tatum said. “I have tinted windows.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tatum said the informant led Tatum to the home of Edgar Perez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>González anticipated Tatum’s shifting account before his testimony.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s making this up as he goes along,” González told Magistrate Judge Sallie Kim before the jury was brought in. “And I know this because he’s done it before.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tatum testified that he got out of the patrol car and told Perez that he was investigating a hit-and-run involving Perez’s vehicle. This wasn’t true, but Tatum said it was a “ruse” to disguise the reason he was there and “de-escalate” the situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It didn’t work. When Rodriguez arrived on the scene, he said Perez was clearly aggravated. Then Tatum tried to do a field sobriety test.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s when the fight started,” Rodriguez testified. “He tried to punch me and he missed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the altercation, Rodriguez used a Taser on Perez’s neck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That also didn’t work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were losing,” Rodriguez said. They called a third officer to assist, and Perez was arrested and taken to the hospital and then to jail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perez initially faced battery and possession charges — officers found four grams of methamphetamine in his pocket, defense attorney Scott Lewis said in his opening statement Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perez pleaded no contest to drug possession and resisting arrest. He was sentenced to probation, which included a condition that officers could search his residence at any time during the day or at a reasonable hour of the night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Shifting Testimony\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When González asked Tatum on Wednesday why he did not mention the informant in a criminal court hearing related to Perez’s case, the ex-cop repeatedly said he did not recall testifying that the reason for the stop was Perez’s sweaty appearance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So González showed the former officer a transcript of the hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Does this refresh your recollection?” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That is what the transcript said,” Tatum said. “I do not remember testifying to that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch4 style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11700572/ex-rohnert-park-police-officer-skips-court-because-kqed-might-be-there-we-were\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">Ex-Rohnert Park Police Officer Skips Court ‘Because KQED Might Be There’ (We Were)\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/h4>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11700572/ex-rohnert-park-police-officer-skips-court-because-kqed-might-be-there-we-were\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/tatum-screenshot.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>González asked both Tatum and Rodriguez why they also didn’t mention an informant in police reports about the 2010 arrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both said they were protecting the informant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the drug business if someone tells the police that you sold them drugs and then they get arrested and go to jail … you’re going to be mad at that person who told the police about you,” Rodriguez said. “And sometimes people retaliate by using violence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rodriguez said he didn’t know the informant’s name because the man was Tatum’s informant. Tatum said he did not know the informant’s name either. Neither officer could point to any records that could conclusively corroborate their testimony about the informant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Credibility Questioned\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’ve testified untruthfully under oath, haven’t you?” González asked Tatum at one point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The courtroom fell silent as Tatum paused for a long moment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What are you referring to?” he finally answered. “I’m not sure. If you can refer to a certain point or case?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’re aware of the fact you testified untruthfully in Superior Court in Sonoma County?” the lawyer asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lewis then objected, and the judge told González to move on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11673412/highway-robbery-drivers-allege-rohnert-park-police-illegally-seized-cannabis-cash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">KQED investigation\u003c/a> found Tatum has had issues with credibility dating back to at least 2015, when his shifting testimony about the probable cause for a traffic stop led a judge to dismiss the case. In a 2016 case, four Sonoma County defense attorneys submitted affidavits declaring that they had reason to question Tatum’s credibility. In another case, Tatum’s reason for an arrest was disproved by body-camera footage.\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\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Officers wrote in police reports that they ordered seized marijuana destroyed, but court records ordering the destruction are missing.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>He was placed on the “Brady list” of officers with credibility issues kept by the Sonoma County District Attorney’s Office, according to four defense attorneys. Being on the Brady list meant, after that case, prosecutors had a duty to disclose evidence of Tatum’s past dishonest testimony to defense attorneys, who can use it to attack his credibility if he’s called as a witness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the judge in the Barajas case excluded evidence related to any cases that came after the 2014 probation search.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tatum’s personal lawyer, Stuart Hanlon, said he didn’t know the particulars of the ex-cop’s previous issues with credibility on the stand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know of any case where his credibility has been proven to be false or bad,” Hanlon said. “You know there are \u003ca href=\"https://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/8517253-181/rohnert-park-officials-tight-lipped-over?sba=AAS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">stories\u003c/a> in \u003ca href=\"https://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/8422963-181/former-rohnert-park-sergeant-under?sba=AAS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Press Democrat\u003c/a> basically talking about \u003ca href=\"https://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/8438487-181/former-sergeant-under-investigation-led?sba=AAS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a lot of stuff\u003c/a>, but my contact with Jacy, which is clearly not on the streets and highways and houses, is that he’s very, very direct and honest.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hanlon is a criminal lawyer, but he said he is not representing Tatum in any active criminal case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tatum said he had no comment when asked to speak about the case outside the federal courtroom on Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately it will be up to the jury in the Barajas case to decide if they believe the ex-officer’s account of the 2014 search.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘Sanctity of One’s Home’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More broadly, the jury will have to weigh a key constitutional question: Even if Perez waives his Fourth Amendment rights, does that mean his parents waive their rights as well?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This case is about the sanctity of one’s home,” González argued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Nov. 4, 2014, Tatum recruited then-Officer David Rodriguez and Officer Matthew Snodgrass to conduct two probation searches. At a previous house they visited, the officers found drugs and ammunition, according to their testimony.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time, Rohnert Park had disbanded a specialized unit that conducted probation searches, due to budget cuts, defense attorney Lewis said. It became every officer’s responsibility to stop by probationers’ homes and search.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When they arrived at the Barajas home, the officers assumed different roles, Lewis said. Rodriguez, the “contact officer,” knocked on the front door. Snodgrass backed him up as cover. Tatum, the “catch officer,” was watching other exits.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">\u003cstrong>‘I’d never bet my life or my partner’s life on a drug dealer.’\u003c/strong>\u003ccite>Jacy Tatum,\u003cbr>\nFormer Rohnert Park police sergeant\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Tatum walked around the back of the house and entered through a sliding glass door, with his gun drawn, according to his testimony.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Going into a house through the back door with a gun drawn is a big deal,” González said in his opening statement Tuesday, arguing it was unnecessary and dangerous in this case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tatum testified that he pulled his gun because it was dark in the remodeled garage where he entered and the gun had a flashlight on it, but also because he believed Perez had a gun. Tatum said he holstered his gun before the family noticed him behind them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tatum said he had pulled Perez over a couple of times in the past and found him in possession of either methamphetamine or a meth pipe, but Tatum didn’t report the probation violation because Perez was his informant. Tatum testified that they had each other’s cellphone numbers and they spoke every month or two.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If he’s your informant and he’s cordial with you, why did you have to go to his house with your gun drawn?” González asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People that use drugs change, sir,” Tatum said. “And I’d never bet my life or my partner’s life on a drug dealer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once Tatum was inside, Raul Barajas let Rodriguez and Snodgrass into the home. The officers searched every room in the house, for a total of about five minutes, officers said. They didn’t find Perez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>González said Rohnert Park’s practice of searching an entire home during probation checks is illegal: Officers are allowed to search only the probationer’s room and any common areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This search was unreasonable for multiple reasons,” González said, arguing that the city’s lack of policies specifically concerning probation searches gives officers too much latitude.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That leads to abuse,” González said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lewis said that after officers at the front door provided “knock-and-notice,” Tatum had every right to enter the probationer’s home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All three officers testified that they felt they were abiding by state law during the search.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a somewhat rare example, the jury is considering a federal claim alleging Rohnert Park failed to properly train and supervise its employees, in addition to claims against the officers themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perez did not take the stand on Wednesday. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Mystery Informant\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The couple’s attorney, Arturo González, began by questioning Tatum about an earlier contact with Perez outside the same home in 2010. That incident ended with a physical fight between Perez, Tatum and Rodriguez, who used a Taser on Perez before taking him into custody.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>González wanted to know why Tatum approached Perez while he was playing catch outside the home with his younger brother. And why did his story about the arrest change?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Tatum’s original police report and later in testimony at criminal court, he said that he was driving by in his patrol car and stopped because he noticed Perez was sweaty and thought he was on drugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in federal court Wednesday, both Tatum and Rodriguez testified there was a different reason they contacted Perez: A criminal informant told Tatum he would take the then-officer to his drug dealer.\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\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Allegations of questionable traffic stops and illegally seized cash and marijuana by Rohnert Park police.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“I said hop in,” Tatum said. “I have tinted windows.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tatum said the informant led Tatum to the home of Edgar Perez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>González anticipated Tatum’s shifting account before his testimony.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s making this up as he goes along,” González told Magistrate Judge Sallie Kim before the jury was brought in. “And I know this because he’s done it before.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tatum testified that he got out of the patrol car and told Perez that he was investigating a hit-and-run involving Perez’s vehicle. This wasn’t true, but Tatum said it was a “ruse” to disguise the reason he was there and “de-escalate” the situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It didn’t work. When Rodriguez arrived on the scene, he said Perez was clearly aggravated. Then Tatum tried to do a field sobriety test.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s when the fight started,” Rodriguez testified. “He tried to punch me and he missed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the altercation, Rodriguez used a Taser on Perez’s neck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That also didn’t work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were losing,” Rodriguez said. They called a third officer to assist, and Perez was arrested and taken to the hospital and then to jail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perez initially faced battery and possession charges — officers found four grams of methamphetamine in his pocket, defense attorney Scott Lewis said in his opening statement Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perez pleaded no contest to drug possession and resisting arrest. He was sentenced to probation, which included a condition that officers could search his residence at any time during the day or at a reasonable hour of the night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Shifting Testimony\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When González asked Tatum on Wednesday why he did not mention the informant in a criminal court hearing related to Perez’s case, the ex-cop repeatedly said he did not recall testifying that the reason for the stop was Perez’s sweaty appearance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So González showed the former officer a transcript of the hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Does this refresh your recollection?” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That is what the transcript said,” Tatum said. “I do not remember testifying to that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch4 style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11700572/ex-rohnert-park-police-officer-skips-court-because-kqed-might-be-there-we-were\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000\">Ex-Rohnert Park Police Officer Skips Court ‘Because KQED Might Be There’ (We Were)\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/h4>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11700572/ex-rohnert-park-police-officer-skips-court-because-kqed-might-be-there-we-were\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/tatum-screenshot.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>González asked both Tatum and Rodriguez why they also didn’t mention an informant in police reports about the 2010 arrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both said they were protecting the informant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the drug business if someone tells the police that you sold them drugs and then they get arrested and go to jail … you’re going to be mad at that person who told the police about you,” Rodriguez said. “And sometimes people retaliate by using violence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rodriguez said he didn’t know the informant’s name because the man was Tatum’s informant. Tatum said he did not know the informant’s name either. Neither officer could point to any records that could conclusively corroborate their testimony about the informant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Credibility Questioned\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’ve testified untruthfully under oath, haven’t you?” González asked Tatum at one point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The courtroom fell silent as Tatum paused for a long moment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What are you referring to?” he finally answered. “I’m not sure. If you can refer to a certain point or case?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’re aware of the fact you testified untruthfully in Superior Court in Sonoma County?” the lawyer asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lewis then objected, and the judge told González to move on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11673412/highway-robbery-drivers-allege-rohnert-park-police-illegally-seized-cannabis-cash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">KQED investigation\u003c/a> found Tatum has had issues with credibility dating back to at least 2015, when his shifting testimony about the probable cause for a traffic stop led a judge to dismiss the case. In a 2016 case, four Sonoma County defense attorneys submitted affidavits declaring that they had reason to question Tatum’s credibility. In another case, Tatum’s reason for an arrest was disproved by body-camera footage.\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\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Officers wrote in police reports that they ordered seized marijuana destroyed, but court records ordering the destruction are missing.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>He was placed on the “Brady list” of officers with credibility issues kept by the Sonoma County District Attorney’s Office, according to four defense attorneys. Being on the Brady list meant, after that case, prosecutors had a duty to disclose evidence of Tatum’s past dishonest testimony to defense attorneys, who can use it to attack his credibility if he’s called as a witness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the judge in the Barajas case excluded evidence related to any cases that came after the 2014 probation search.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tatum’s personal lawyer, Stuart Hanlon, said he didn’t know the particulars of the ex-cop’s previous issues with credibility on the stand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know of any case where his credibility has been proven to be false or bad,” Hanlon said. “You know there are \u003ca href=\"https://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/8517253-181/rohnert-park-officials-tight-lipped-over?sba=AAS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">stories\u003c/a> in \u003ca href=\"https://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/8422963-181/former-rohnert-park-sergeant-under?sba=AAS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Press Democrat\u003c/a> basically talking about \u003ca href=\"https://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/8438487-181/former-sergeant-under-investigation-led?sba=AAS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a lot of stuff\u003c/a>, but my contact with Jacy, which is clearly not on the streets and highways and houses, is that he’s very, very direct and honest.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hanlon is a criminal lawyer, but he said he is not representing Tatum in any active criminal case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tatum said he had no comment when asked to speak about the case outside the federal courtroom on Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately it will be up to the jury in the Barajas case to decide if they believe the ex-officer’s account of the 2014 search.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘Sanctity of One’s Home’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More broadly, the jury will have to weigh a key constitutional question: Even if Perez waives his Fourth Amendment rights, does that mean his parents waive their rights as well?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This case is about the sanctity of one’s home,” González argued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Nov. 4, 2014, Tatum recruited then-Officer David Rodriguez and Officer Matthew Snodgrass to conduct two probation searches. At a previous house they visited, the officers found drugs and ammunition, according to their testimony.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time, Rohnert Park had disbanded a specialized unit that conducted probation searches, due to budget cuts, defense attorney Lewis said. It became every officer’s responsibility to stop by probationers’ homes and search.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When they arrived at the Barajas home, the officers assumed different roles, Lewis said. Rodriguez, the “contact officer,” knocked on the front door. Snodgrass backed him up as cover. Tatum, the “catch officer,” was watching other exits.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">\u003cstrong>‘I’d never bet my life or my partner’s life on a drug dealer.’\u003c/strong>\u003ccite>Jacy Tatum,\u003cbr>\nFormer Rohnert Park police sergeant\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Tatum walked around the back of the house and entered through a sliding glass door, with his gun drawn, according to his testimony.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Going into a house through the back door with a gun drawn is a big deal,” González said in his opening statement Tuesday, arguing it was unnecessary and dangerous in this case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tatum testified that he pulled his gun because it was dark in the remodeled garage where he entered and the gun had a flashlight on it, but also because he believed Perez had a gun. Tatum said he holstered his gun before the family noticed him behind them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tatum said he had pulled Perez over a couple of times in the past and found him in possession of either methamphetamine or a meth pipe, but Tatum didn’t report the probation violation because Perez was his informant. Tatum testified that they had each other’s cellphone numbers and they spoke every month or two.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If he’s your informant and he’s cordial with you, why did you have to go to his house with your gun drawn?” González asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People that use drugs change, sir,” Tatum said. “And I’d never bet my life or my partner’s life on a drug dealer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once Tatum was inside, Raul Barajas let Rodriguez and Snodgrass into the home. The officers searched every room in the house, for a total of about five minutes, officers said. They didn’t find Perez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>González said Rohnert Park’s practice of searching an entire home during probation checks is illegal: Officers are allowed to search only the probationer’s room and any common areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This search was unreasonable for multiple reasons,” González said, arguing that the city’s lack of policies specifically concerning probation searches gives officers too much latitude.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That leads to abuse,” González said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lewis said that after officers at the front door provided “knock-and-notice,” Tatum had every right to enter the probationer’s home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All three officers testified that they felt they were abiding by state law during the search.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a somewhat rare example, the jury is considering a federal claim alleging Rohnert Park failed to properly train and supervise its employees, in addition to claims against the officers themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perez did not take the stand on Wednesday. González said he is getting treatment for addiction and that he may still testify.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At one point during his testimony, Tatum was overcome with emotion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lewis had asked him when he had started working as a police officer. Tatum paused for several moments before answering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“2005,” he said finally, as he wiped tears from his face.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tatum left his job in June amid the city’s investigation into questionable seizures of marijuana and cash along Highway 101.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Jacy Tatum elected not to attend the opening day Tuesday of a federal civil trial in which he is a defendant because he was afraid KQED would be reporting on the case, according to an attorney representing the city.\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\">\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 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\">Allegations of questionable traffic stops and illegally seized cash and marijuana by Rohnert Park police.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The trial concerns a 2014 home search by then-officer Tatum and officers Matthew Snodgrass and David Rodriguez, who is now retired. While both issues deal broadly with Fourth Amendment issues, the case is unrelated to a KQED \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11673412/highway-robbery-drivers-allege-rohnert-park-police-illegally-seized-cannabis-cash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">investigative series\u003c/a> exposing \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\">questionable cash and marijuana seizures\u003c/a> by Tatum and other Rohnert Park Department of Public Safety officers in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tatum, aware of the \"negative publicity\" surrounding him, decided recently that he was unavailable for trial on the 2014 home search, said attorney Scott Lewis, who is representing Rohnert Park and the other officers named in the suit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Efforts have been made on multiple levels\" to reach Tatum, Lewis told Magistrate Judge Sallie Kim Tuesday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He believes KQED is going to be here today,\" Lewis said. \"He's trying to avoid a circus.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plaintiffs' attorney Arturo Gonzalez said Tatum had been subpoenaed through the city and he's required to attend and testify at the trial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This witness is hiding from the court,\" Gonzalez told the judge. \"He doesn't want to come because he doesn't want the media to exercise their First Amendment right, that's not unavailability. That's hiding.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Judge Kim said the circumstances were \"unusual\" and asked attorneys to file briefs on the legal definition of \"unavailability.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because Tatum quit his job in June, he doesn't share the same incentive other defendants have in attending the trial, Lewis said, adding that Tatum is now represented by another attorney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stuart Hanlon, who represents Tatum in other matters, said potential press coverage had nothing to do with Tatum’s decision on whether to attend the trial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you’re sued in a civil case, you can be there or not,” Hanlon said. “He chose not to be there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Hanlon said, Tatum plans to comply with a subpoena to testify in the case on Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This has nothing to do with KQED or any media being there,” Hanlon said.\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 src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/rohnertpot_final001-1180x631.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Officers wrote in police reports that they ordered seized marijuana destroyed, but court records ordering the destruction are missing.\n\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The issues at the trial hinge heavily on Tatum's conduct when he, Rodriguez and Snodgrass approached a Rohnert Park home looking for Edgar Perez, who was on probation for drug and resisting arrest charges. Perez's probation included a condition that he submit to searches of his residence that would not require a warrant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rodriguez and Snodgrass knocked on the front door of Perez's parents' home late in the afternoon on Nov. 4, 2014. Tatum went around the back and entered the home with his gun drawn in search of Perez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Jacy Tatum knows that this man Edgar Perez is dangerous,\" Lewis said last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was rumored that he had a gun and he was dealing drugs. That was another one of the reasons they went over to his house and he went in with his gun drawn,\" Lewis said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Perez wasn't there. His parents, Raul and Elva Barajas were, as was another one of their sons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Our clients have a special-needs son,\" Gonzalez said last week. \"And I can only imagine what could have happened if that special-needs son had turned the corner at the same time that the officer comes in with his gun drawn.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plaintiffs Raul and Elva Barajas are arguing that the search of their home and Tatum's entry into it was unreasonable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They say the Rohnert Park Department of Public Safety routinely sought out Perez to harass him — not for any legitimate law enforcement purpose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The trial is expected to finish by early November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED's Sukey Lewis contributed reporting to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plaintiffs' attorney Arturo Gonzalez said Tatum had been subpoenaed through the city and he's required to attend and testify at the trial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This witness is hiding from the court,\" Gonzalez told the judge. \"He doesn't want to come because he doesn't want the media to exercise their First Amendment right, that's not unavailability. That's hiding.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Judge Kim said the circumstances were \"unusual\" and asked attorneys to file briefs on the legal definition of \"unavailability.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because Tatum quit his job in June, he doesn't share the same incentive other defendants have in attending the trial, Lewis said, adding that Tatum is now represented by another attorney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stuart Hanlon, who represents Tatum in other matters, said potential press coverage had nothing to do with Tatum’s decision on whether to attend the trial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you’re sued in a civil case, you can be there or not,” Hanlon said. “He chose not to be there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Hanlon said, Tatum plans to comply with a subpoena to testify in the case on Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This has nothing to do with KQED or any media being there,” Hanlon said.\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 src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/rohnertpot_final001-1180x631.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Officers wrote in police reports that they ordered seized marijuana destroyed, but court records ordering the destruction are missing.\n\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The issues at the trial hinge heavily on Tatum's conduct when he, Rodriguez and Snodgrass approached a Rohnert Park home looking for Edgar Perez, who was on probation for drug and resisting arrest charges. Perez's probation included a condition that he submit to searches of his residence that would not require a warrant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rodriguez and Snodgrass knocked on the front door of Perez's parents' home late in the afternoon on Nov. 4, 2014. Tatum went around the back and entered the home with his gun drawn in search of Perez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Jacy Tatum knows that this man Edgar Perez is dangerous,\" Lewis said last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was rumored that he had a gun and he was dealing drugs. That was another one of the reasons they went over to his house and he went in with his gun drawn,\" Lewis said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Perez wasn't there. His parents, Raul and Elva Barajas were, as was another one of their sons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Our clients have a special-needs son,\" Gonzalez said last week. \"And I can only imagine what could have happened if that special-needs son had turned the corner at the same time that the officer comes in with his gun drawn.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plaintiffs Raul and Elva Barajas are arguing that the search of their home and Tatum's entry into it was unreasonable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They say the Rohnert Park Department of Public Safety routinely sought out Perez to harass him — not for any legitimate law enforcement purpose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The trial is expected to finish by early November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED's Sukey Lewis contributed reporting to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Brian Masterson, who has served as the director of Rohnert Park’s Public Safety Department for nearly a decade, is retiring next month. In an email to city staff earlier this week, he wrote that it was a difficult decision, but that he and his wife want to spend more time traveling and with their family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While I will say the last 10 years have not been easy,” Masterson wrote. “They have been challenging as well as rewarding and we have accomplished many things together to improve the quality of life for our residents here in Rohnert Park.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Masterson’s announcement comes as his department faces increasing \u003ca href=\"http://www.pressdemocrat.com/opinion/8530723-181/pd-editorial-rohnert-park-must\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">scrutiny\u003c/a> over an asset and marijuana seizure program. In April, the city launched an internal investigation into a \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 noreferrer\">suspicious traffic stop\u003c/a> that took place in December. Two officers, Sgt. Jacy Tatum and his partner, Joseph Huffaker, were placed on leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In June, KQED \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11673412/highway-robbery-drivers-allege-rohnert-park-police-illegally-seized-cannabis-cash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported\u003c/a> about a series of questionable seizures made by Rohnert Park Public Safety officers during traffic stops conducted 40 miles north of the city along Highway 101. Then on June 22, Assistant City Manager Don Schwartz told KQED that Tatum was no longer employed by the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the letter announcing his resignation, Masterson did not directly address the internal investigation or the scrutiny of his department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are many challenges ahead but I know that ... the leadership of the City Council and our City Manager will see us through,” he wrote. “I feel fortunate and blessed to have served with all of you and the members of Public Safety.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Masterson did not reply to KQED’s request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rohnert Park City Councilman Jake Mackenzie said he takes the public safety director's retirement announcement at face value, and that he is sorry that Masterson will no longer be heading the city’s police force. Mackenzie would not comment on the internal investigation or the aggressive asset seizure program that pulled in more than \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/sites/all/files/agweb/pdfs/publications/asset_forf/2016-af/2016-af.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">$1 million\u003c/a> in 2015 and 2016 for the city’s Public Safety Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a matter that will be discussed in closed session at some point in time. It's a matter that is the responsibility of the city manager and the city attorney,” Mackenzie said. “And while the city may eventually, you know, have to deal with legal matters, at the moment that is not something that I can comment about.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City Manager Darrin Jenkins did not respond to KQED’s request for an interview, but in an email he did commend Masterson for his service to the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“During his time here we achieved the lowest crime rates in the modern history of the City, successfully mitigated the impacts of the opening of a nearby casino, grew the city's traffic enforcement unit, created a community oriented problem solving unit, implemented body worn cameras, upgraded our fire and police vehicles, and brought crime analysis and data based policing to our agency,” he wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jenkins wrote he would be hiring an interim director while the city begins the recruiting process for a new person to head the department.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Brian Masterson, who has served as the director of Rohnert Park’s Public Safety Department for nearly a decade, is retiring next month. In an email to city staff earlier this week, he wrote that it was a difficult decision, but that he and his wife want to spend more time traveling and with their family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While I will say the last 10 years have not been easy,” Masterson wrote. “They have been challenging as well as rewarding and we have accomplished many things together to improve the quality of life for our residents here in Rohnert Park.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Masterson’s announcement comes as his department faces increasing \u003ca href=\"http://www.pressdemocrat.com/opinion/8530723-181/pd-editorial-rohnert-park-must\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">scrutiny\u003c/a> over an asset and marijuana seizure program. In April, the city launched an internal investigation into a \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 noreferrer\">suspicious traffic stop\u003c/a> that took place in December. Two officers, Sgt. Jacy Tatum and his partner, Joseph Huffaker, were placed on leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In June, KQED \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11673412/highway-robbery-drivers-allege-rohnert-park-police-illegally-seized-cannabis-cash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported\u003c/a> about a series of questionable seizures made by Rohnert Park Public Safety officers during traffic stops conducted 40 miles north of the city along Highway 101. Then on June 22, Assistant City Manager Don Schwartz told KQED that Tatum was no longer employed by the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the letter announcing his resignation, Masterson did not directly address the internal investigation or the scrutiny of his department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This post contains a correction.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]D[/dropcap]ocumentation for the destruction of about 800 pounds of marijuana seized by Rohnert Park Department of Public Safety officers in recent years is missing from court files, KQED has found, despite the officers writing in police reports that the court ordered the evidence destroyed.\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\">\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\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">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>Rohnert Park has released 40 police reports involving traffic stops by former police Sgt. Jacy Tatum and his partners Matthew Snodgrass and Joseph Huffaker in response to a public records request. KQED requested the reports after nine drivers came forward with accounts of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11673412/highway-robbery-drivers-allege-rohnert-park-police-illegally-seized-cannabis-cash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">questionable stops\u003c/a> and seizures along Highway 101 involving Rohnert Park police officers. The city plans to release more incident reports on a rolling basis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jacy Tatum no longer works for the city of Rohnert Park, Assistant City Manager Don Schwartz said on June 22. Huffaker still works for the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The incident reports show that Tatum and his partners were responsible for seizing hundreds of pounds of marijuana during the traffic stops. The city awarded Tatum for this work in 2015. Police and court records indicate he was given a wide latitude to conduct drug and cash seizures with little oversight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, on Halloween in 2016, Tatum and Huffaker made a standard stop, pulling over a man from Woodland Hills for not having his headlights on in the rain. Huffaker wrote in the report that he smelled marijuana and then searched the vehicle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Inside the trunk were four large black garbage bags. Each bag was filled with one pound bags of processed marijuana. There was also approximately 17 lbs of processed marijuana in one pound bags loose in the trunk,” Huffaker wrote in the report. Tatum and Huffaker seized a total of 100 pounds of marijuana in that stop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A 10-pound sample was booked into evidence, Huffaker wrote, and he drafted a destruction order for the remaining 90 pounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]D[/dropcap]estruction orders are supposed to be filed with Sonoma County Superior Court, according to Rohnert Park Property Unit Supervisor Christine Giordano. \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?sectionNum=11479.&lawCode=HSC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">State law\u003c/a> requires that law enforcement file an affidavit with the court within 30 days of destruction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a review of all destruction orders filed with the court from 2014 to 2018 found no destruction orders or affidavits that match the amount, the case number or the driver in the 2016 Halloween traffic stop. Destruction orders were missing in at least six other cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11678169\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11678169\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31346_IMG_3556-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31346_IMG_3556-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31346_IMG_3556-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31346_IMG_3556-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31346_IMG_3556-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31346_IMG_3556-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31346_IMG_3556-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31346_IMG_3556-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31346_IMG_3556-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31346_IMG_3556-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31346_IMG_3556-520x347.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31346_IMG_3556.jpg 1980w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Highway 101 near Cloverdale. \u003ccite>(Adam Grossberg/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Schwartz, the assistant city manager, wouldn’t clarify the destruction procedures of the Rohnert Park Department of Public Safety or explain what happened to the approximately 800 pounds of seized cannabis that was purportedly destroyed but not documented.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">\u003cspan style=\"font-size: x-large\">\u003cstrong>‘Use every tool you have, we don’t play fair….We play to win!!’\u003c/strong>\u003c/span>\u003ccite>Jacy Tatum,\u003cbr>\nFormer Rohnert Park Department of Public Safety sergeant\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Schwartz said he couldn’t comment on the missing destruction orders because they could relate to an ongoing internal investigation into Tatum and Huffaker, which the city launched around April of this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Justin Buffington, an attorney who represents Tatum and Huffaker, did not respond to multiple requests for comment on this story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorney Joe Russoniello, who used to be an FBI agent and U.S. attorney for the Northern District of California, said it is the responsibility of the police department’s hierarchy to make sure that there is legitimate oversight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is a code of silence, of course, which is an impediment to this kind of responsibility and responsiveness,” Russoniello said. “And of course the regular troops on the ground are only as good as their leaders are.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]T[/dropcap]atum has a history of tension with Rohnert Park Department of Public Safety Chief Brian Masterson, court records show. He successfully fought attempted discipline in 2009 for failing to register an assault rifle with the state Department of Justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tatum then sued the chief alleging racial discrimination in 2012. Tatum is African-American.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11678171\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 473px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11678171\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/tatum-screenshot.jpg\" alt=\"Screenshot of Rohnert Park police Sgt. Jacy Tatum being recognized by the City Council for his work on drug seizures in 2015.\" width=\"473\" height=\"342\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/tatum-screenshot.jpg 473w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/tatum-screenshot-160x116.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/tatum-screenshot-240x174.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/tatum-screenshot-375x271.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 473px) 100vw, 473px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Screen shot of Rohnert Park police Sgt. Jacy Tatum being recognized by the City Council for his work on drug seizures in 2015.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit alleged Tatum was unfairly passed over to become a training officer. It cites responses from supervisors who questioned his judgment and “willingness to set the best example” after Tatum sent an \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4486451-TatumSuitCombined.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">email\u003c/a> to the entire Department of Public Safety and City Council with some thoughts on police tactics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Use every tool you have, we don’t play fair….We play to win!!” the email says in part. “When I became a police officer I promised to be honest and protect not only the public, who hates us most of the time until they need us, but to protect the other officers out there protecting society.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tatum was promoted to sergeant in 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In some cases, Rohnert Park Public Safety officers did file destruction orders with the court. But those, too, raise questions about internal oversight of Tatum and the department’s drug interdiction work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department gave Tatum the responsibility for seizing and destroying large amounts of marijuana. In 2016 and 2017, about 720 pounds of marijuana was released to Tatum for disposal, according to destruction orders filed with the court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11678130\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Doc-3-800x190.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"190\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Doc-3-800x190.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Doc-3-160x38.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Doc-3-1020x242.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Doc-3-1200x285.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Doc-3-1920x456.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Doc-3-1180x280.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Doc-3-960x228.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Doc-3-240x57.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Doc-3-375x89.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Doc-3-520x123.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Doc-3.jpg 1980w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]T[/dropcap]atum and Huffaker are currently under investigation by Rohnert Park for their involvement in a suspicious marijuana seizure on Dec. 5, 2017. But the city had \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4521930-Letter-2to-RhonertParkPD-amp-DA.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">notice\u003c/a> of at least one other questionable marijuana seizure by the two a year earlier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The officers seized 47 pounds of medical cannabis from Huedell Freeman during a traffic stop on Dec. 29, 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Freeman’s lawyer, Hannah Nelson, followed up with the department a few days later by phone and \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4499501-Nelson-Letter.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">email\u003c/a> asking that the cannabis, worth a year of income to Freeman, be returned to him as soon as possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Officer Huffaker informed me [in a phone call] that he had all but 10 pounds of the medicine destroyed,” Nelson wrote in a follow-up email to the department on Jan. 5, 2017. “He also informed me that I would have to wait to receive discovery to obtain the details of his reasoning or justification. He additionally stated that I would have to subpoena the destruction order and department policies concerning confiscation and destruction of medical cannabis when I asked for both.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Destruction of Freeman’s cannabis was also counter to Rohnert Park Department of Public Safety \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4567834-RELEASE-20170208-T094821-Rohnert-Park-Department.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">policy\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The Property Unit Supervisor should ensure that marijuana, drug paraphernalia or other related property seized from a person engaged or assisting in the use of medical marijuana is not destroyed pending any charges and without a court order.\u003cbr>\n \u003cbr>\nUpon the prosecutor’s decision to forgo prosecution, or the dismissal of charges or an acquittal, the Property Unit Supervisor should, as soon as practicable, return to the person from whom it was seized any usable medical marijuana, plants, drug paraphernalia or other related property.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>That protocol was not followed in Freeman’s case. His marijuana was not returned. The court has no record of a destruction order. No charges were ever filed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Freeman filed a \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4499505-TortClaimFiling.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">claim\u003c/a> with the city last year for the value of his seized property, but his claim was denied. Now, more than a year and a half after the traffic stop, Nelson said she still doesn’t know if Freeman’s cannabis was actually destroyed or not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Correction: KQED learned after publication that Rohnert Park police requested prosecutors file charges against Huedell Freeman. This post has been edited to reflect the new information.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was reported in collaboration with the North Coast Journal.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>This post contains a correction.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">D\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>ocumentation for the destruction of about 800 pounds of marijuana seized by Rohnert Park Department of Public Safety officers in recent years is missing from court files, KQED has found, despite the officers writing in police reports that the court ordered the evidence destroyed.\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\">\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\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">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>Rohnert Park has released 40 police reports involving traffic stops by former police Sgt. Jacy Tatum and his partners Matthew Snodgrass and Joseph Huffaker in response to a public records request. KQED requested the reports after nine drivers came forward with accounts of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11673412/highway-robbery-drivers-allege-rohnert-park-police-illegally-seized-cannabis-cash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">questionable stops\u003c/a> and seizures along Highway 101 involving Rohnert Park police officers. The city plans to release more incident reports on a rolling basis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jacy Tatum no longer works for the city of Rohnert Park, Assistant City Manager Don Schwartz said on June 22. Huffaker still works for the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The incident reports show that Tatum and his partners were responsible for seizing hundreds of pounds of marijuana during the traffic stops. The city awarded Tatum for this work in 2015. Police and court records indicate he was given a wide latitude to conduct drug and cash seizures with little oversight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, on Halloween in 2016, Tatum and Huffaker made a standard stop, pulling over a man from Woodland Hills for not having his headlights on in the rain. Huffaker wrote in the report that he smelled marijuana and then searched the vehicle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Inside the trunk were four large black garbage bags. Each bag was filled with one pound bags of processed marijuana. There was also approximately 17 lbs of processed marijuana in one pound bags loose in the trunk,” Huffaker wrote in the report. Tatum and Huffaker seized a total of 100 pounds of marijuana in that stop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A 10-pound sample was booked into evidence, Huffaker wrote, and he drafted a destruction order for the remaining 90 pounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">D\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>estruction orders are supposed to be filed with Sonoma County Superior Court, according to Rohnert Park Property Unit Supervisor Christine Giordano. \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?sectionNum=11479.&lawCode=HSC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">State law\u003c/a> requires that law enforcement file an affidavit with the court within 30 days of destruction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a review of all destruction orders filed with the court from 2014 to 2018 found no destruction orders or affidavits that match the amount, the case number or the driver in the 2016 Halloween traffic stop. Destruction orders were missing in at least six other cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11678169\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11678169\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31346_IMG_3556-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31346_IMG_3556-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31346_IMG_3556-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31346_IMG_3556-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31346_IMG_3556-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31346_IMG_3556-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31346_IMG_3556-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31346_IMG_3556-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31346_IMG_3556-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31346_IMG_3556-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31346_IMG_3556-520x347.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31346_IMG_3556.jpg 1980w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Highway 101 near Cloverdale. \u003ccite>(Adam Grossberg/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Schwartz, the assistant city manager, wouldn’t clarify the destruction procedures of the Rohnert Park Department of Public Safety or explain what happened to the approximately 800 pounds of seized cannabis that was purportedly destroyed but not documented.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">\u003cspan style=\"font-size: x-large\">\u003cstrong>‘Use every tool you have, we don’t play fair….We play to win!!’\u003c/strong>\u003c/span>\u003ccite>Jacy Tatum,\u003cbr>\nFormer Rohnert Park Department of Public Safety sergeant\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Schwartz said he couldn’t comment on the missing destruction orders because they could relate to an ongoing internal investigation into Tatum and Huffaker, which the city launched around April of this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Justin Buffington, an attorney who represents Tatum and Huffaker, did not respond to multiple requests for comment on this story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorney Joe Russoniello, who used to be an FBI agent and U.S. attorney for the Northern District of California, said it is the responsibility of the police department’s hierarchy to make sure that there is legitimate oversight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is a code of silence, of course, which is an impediment to this kind of responsibility and responsiveness,” Russoniello said. “And of course the regular troops on the ground are only as good as their leaders are.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">T\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>atum has a history of tension with Rohnert Park Department of Public Safety Chief Brian Masterson, court records show. He successfully fought attempted discipline in 2009 for failing to register an assault rifle with the state Department of Justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tatum then sued the chief alleging racial discrimination in 2012. Tatum is African-American.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11678171\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 473px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11678171\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/tatum-screenshot.jpg\" alt=\"Screenshot of Rohnert Park police Sgt. Jacy Tatum being recognized by the City Council for his work on drug seizures in 2015.\" width=\"473\" height=\"342\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/tatum-screenshot.jpg 473w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/tatum-screenshot-160x116.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/tatum-screenshot-240x174.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/tatum-screenshot-375x271.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 473px) 100vw, 473px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Screen shot of Rohnert Park police Sgt. Jacy Tatum being recognized by the City Council for his work on drug seizures in 2015.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit alleged Tatum was unfairly passed over to become a training officer. It cites responses from supervisors who questioned his judgment and “willingness to set the best example” after Tatum sent an \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4486451-TatumSuitCombined.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">email\u003c/a> to the entire Department of Public Safety and City Council with some thoughts on police tactics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Use every tool you have, we don’t play fair….We play to win!!” the email says in part. “When I became a police officer I promised to be honest and protect not only the public, who hates us most of the time until they need us, but to protect the other officers out there protecting society.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tatum was promoted to sergeant in 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In some cases, Rohnert Park Public Safety officers did file destruction orders with the court. But those, too, raise questions about internal oversight of Tatum and the department’s drug interdiction work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department gave Tatum the responsibility for seizing and destroying large amounts of marijuana. In 2016 and 2017, about 720 pounds of marijuana was released to Tatum for disposal, according to destruction orders filed with the court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11678130\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Doc-3-800x190.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"190\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Doc-3-800x190.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Doc-3-160x38.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Doc-3-1020x242.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Doc-3-1200x285.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Doc-3-1920x456.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Doc-3-1180x280.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Doc-3-960x228.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Doc-3-240x57.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Doc-3-375x89.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Doc-3-520x123.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Doc-3.jpg 1980w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">T\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>atum and Huffaker are currently under investigation by Rohnert Park for their involvement in a suspicious marijuana seizure on Dec. 5, 2017. But the city had \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4521930-Letter-2to-RhonertParkPD-amp-DA.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">notice\u003c/a> of at least one other questionable marijuana seizure by the two a year earlier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The officers seized 47 pounds of medical cannabis from Huedell Freeman during a traffic stop on Dec. 29, 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Freeman’s lawyer, Hannah Nelson, followed up with the department a few days later by phone and \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4499501-Nelson-Letter.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">email\u003c/a> asking that the cannabis, worth a year of income to Freeman, be returned to him as soon as possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Officer Huffaker informed me [in a phone call] that he had all but 10 pounds of the medicine destroyed,” Nelson wrote in a follow-up email to the department on Jan. 5, 2017. “He also informed me that I would have to wait to receive discovery to obtain the details of his reasoning or justification. He additionally stated that I would have to subpoena the destruction order and department policies concerning confiscation and destruction of medical cannabis when I asked for both.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Destruction of Freeman’s cannabis was also counter to Rohnert Park Department of Public Safety \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4567834-RELEASE-20170208-T094821-Rohnert-Park-Department.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">policy\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The Property Unit Supervisor should ensure that marijuana, drug paraphernalia or other related property seized from a person engaged or assisting in the use of medical marijuana is not destroyed pending any charges and without a court order.\u003cbr>\n \u003cbr>\nUpon the prosecutor’s decision to forgo prosecution, or the dismissal of charges or an acquittal, the Property Unit Supervisor should, as soon as practicable, return to the person from whom it was seized any usable medical marijuana, plants, drug paraphernalia or other related property.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>That protocol was not followed in Freeman’s case. His marijuana was not returned. The court has no record of a destruction order. No charges were ever filed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Freeman filed a \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4499505-TortClaimFiling.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">claim\u003c/a> with the city last year for the value of his seized property, but his claim was denied. Now, more than a year and a half after the traffic stop, Nelson said she still doesn’t know if Freeman’s cannabis was actually destroyed or not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Correction: KQED learned after publication that Rohnert Park police requested prosecutors file charges against Huedell Freeman. This post has been edited to reflect the new information.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated July 3, 2018 at 11:30 a.m.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was reported in collaboration with the \u003ca href=\"https://www.northcoastjournal.com/NewsBlog/archives/2018/06/09/highway-robbery-drivers-allege-rohnert-park-police-illegally-seized-cannabis-cash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">North Coast Journal\u003c/a> and independent reporter \u003ca href=\"http://kymkemp.com/2018/06/09/highway-robbery-drivers-allege-rohnert-park-police-illegally-seized-cannabis-cash/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kym Kemp\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Huedell Freeman was heading south on Highway 101 through Cloverdale and was just over the Sonoma County line when he said a police squad car flipped a U-Turn across a 25-foot grass median and pulled up behind him with lights flashing.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">\u003cspan style=\"font-size: x-large\">‘\u003cstrong>He grinned and smiled\u003c/strong> at me and did not respond. At that moment I knew I’d been had. I knew that this was not a normal traffic stop.’\u003c/span>\u003ccite>Huedell Freeman\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Freeman said he was carrying 47 pounds of marijuana in his rental car that day, Dec. 29, 2016, but said he wasn’t too worried about the weed because he had a \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4499521-FreemanPermitsMendocinco.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">permit to grow\u003c/a> medical cannabis in Mendocino County. He was driving it down to his client, a licensed dispensary called \u003ca href=\"https://www.thehigherpath.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Higher Path\u003c/a> in Sherman Oaks, near Los Angeles. And, he said, he had the paperwork to prove it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It struck Freeman as odd, though, that the two police officers pulling him over weren’t from Cloverdale. They were from Rohnert Park, some 40 miles south on 101. Freeman said he’d been obeying the traffic laws, and the cruise control on the car was set at the speed limit. He expected the traffic stop to end quickly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He didn’t expect to lose a year’s worth of income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[audio src=\"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/RDnews/2018/07/CopsMjLewisRemix.mp3\" Image=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31347_IMG_3562-qut-1200x800.jpg\" Title=\"LISTEN: Highway Robbery\" program=\"The California Report\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Rohnert Park Department of Public Safety Officer Joseph Huffaker approached the car, Freeman said he rolled down his window and asked why he’d been pulled over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Freeman said Huffaker told him his vehicle had “touched the white line” on the side of the road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had not, so I looked at him, and I said, ‘No I didn’t,’ ” Freeman said. “And he grinned and smiled at me and did not respond. At that moment I knew I’d been had. I knew that this was not a normal traffic stop.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then Huffaker asked if he had any marijuana in his car, Freeman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11673488\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11673488\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31332_IMG_2713-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A Rohnert Park police squad car.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31332_IMG_2713-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31332_IMG_2713-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31332_IMG_2713-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31332_IMG_2713-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31332_IMG_2713-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31332_IMG_2713-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31332_IMG_2713-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31332_IMG_2713-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31332_IMG_2713-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31332_IMG_2713-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Rohnert Park police squad car. \u003ccite>(Sukey Lewis/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Yes, I do,” Freeman remembered saying. He also carried a large battered black leather briefcase filled with documentation — what he calls his “compliance briefcase” — and he said he provided the officer with a grower’s permit issued by the Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office, contact information for The Higher Path dispensary with which he had an agreement to both grow and transport marijuana, and his compliance lawyer’s information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Essentially, Freeman was trying to be as \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4499501-Nelson-Letter.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">legitimate\u003c/a> as he could be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Freeman said that as he and Huffaker talked, another Rohnert Park officer, Sgt. Jacy Tatum, stood off to the side, barely speaking except to ask Freeman at one point about the strains of marijuana he was carrying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two officers would go on to seize that marijuana, and Freeman hasn’t seen it since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Freeman’s account of his run-in with Rohnert Park police echoes those of eight other drivers who say a group of officers from the city conducted pretextual traffic stops — those that enable authorities to detain suspects for investigation of other matters — with the goal of unlawfully seizing marijuana and cash. Four people allowed us to share their stories publicly, while five others would tell us about their encounters only if we agreed not to name them, saying they feared police retaliation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their stories suggest a pattern of questionable and potentially illegal stops and seizures over the past three years by officers from a small city along a major marijuana transportation corridor.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\u003cspan style=\"font-size: x-large\">‘\u003cstrong>When I say highway robbery\u003c/strong>, I really mean it.’\u003c/span>\u003ccite>Izaak Schwaiger,\u003cbr>\nAttorney, former prosecutor\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The city of Rohnert Park said in a statement that its police officers “joined other law enforcement agencies in drug interdiction efforts” along Highway 101 seeking drugs including “methamphetamines, opioids, cocaine, ecstasy and marijuana.” But the city says it ceased “most interdiction efforts” related to marijuana in 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is a financial benefit to the city for this work. Through a legal process called asset forfeiture, both the Rohnert Park Department of Public Safety and the Sonoma County District Attorney’s Office get to keep a cut of seized cash suspected to be the proceeds of a crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/sites/all/files/agweb/pdfs/publications/asset_forf/2016-af/2016-af.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report\u003c/a> issued by the California Attorney General shows that from 2015 to 2016, the Rohnert Park Department of Public Safety received more than $1 million in seized cash. The Sonoma County District Attorney received $188,419 of the money from assets seized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tatum was responsible for much of that asset forfeiture windfall to his local department. In 2015, the mayor \u003ca href=\"http://rpcity.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=569\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">publicly recognized\u003c/a> him for his drug prevention work. Tatum \u003ca href=\"http://rpcity.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=569\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">thanked the City Council\u003c/a> for allowing him the opportunity to “fight the war on drugs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Tatum has another reputation: A growing chorus of defense attorneys say he’s a rogue cop. He’s being sued for unlawfully taking a man’s cash, and he has a documented history of dishonesty on the witness stand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I say highway robbery, I really mean it,” Sonoma County defense attorney Izaak Schwaiger said. “Officer Tatum has been involved in dozens of questionable traffic stops both above and below the Mendocino-Sonoma County line, where he has seized marijuana farmers’ product and/or their cash and given them no receipt and no criminal charges were ever brought.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now Tatum and his partner, Joseph Huffaker, are \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\">under investigation\u003c/a> by the city of Rohnert Park. They are both on leave, according to their attorney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Allegations of a Cover-Up\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rohnert Park began an administrative investigation around April of this year after independent reporter Kym Kemp \u003ca href=\"http://kymkemp.com/2018/02/11/former-undercover-officer-involved-in-developing-cannabis-products-accuses-hopland-police-chief-of-theft-corruption-and-civil-rights-violations/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">published\u003c/a> a \u003ca href=\"http://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\">series\u003c/a> of articles about another suspect traffic stop and marijuana seizure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Texas resident Zeke \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4499590-Statement-Flatten.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Flatten said\u003c/a> he was driving south on Highway 101 last December, when an unmarked black Ford Police Interceptor pulled him over just north of the Mendocino County line, about 50 miles north of Rohnert Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11673497\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 410px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-11673497\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31338_alt_743-800x655.jpg\" alt=\"Jacy Tatum is sworn in as a Rohnert Park police sergeant in July, 2015.\" width=\"410\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31338_alt_743-800x655.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31338_alt_743-160x131.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31338_alt_743-1020x835.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31338_alt_743-1200x982.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31338_alt_743.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31338_alt_743-1180x966.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31338_alt_743-960x786.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31338_alt_743-240x196.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31338_alt_743-375x307.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31338_alt_743-520x425.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 410px) 100vw, 410px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jacy Tatum is sworn in as a Rohnert Park police sergeant in July 2015. \u003ccite>(City of Rohnert Park Police & Fire Facebook page)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Flatten, like Freeman, was also in a rental car and said he, too, was not speeding or violating any traffic laws. He pulled over and showed the officer his driver’s license and the rental agreement for his car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The officers did not identify what agency they were with, Flatten said, and he noticed they were not wearing departmental police badges or identifying name tags.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At that point I really felt something was wrong,” Flatten said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flatten said he had 3 pounds of marijuana in his car from a farm in Humboldt County and he was taking it to a laboratory in Santa Rosa for testing. He said he was working on developing a number of cannabis products he hoped to bring to market after California’s law allowing recreational use for adults kicked in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flatten also offered to show the officers his doctor’s prescription for medical cannabis, but he said they weren’t interested.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The officers said they were working for the ATF — the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives — according to Flatten. He said they took his marijuana and left him on the side of the road, all in just a few minutes. They did not issue him a citation or arrest him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flatten reported the Dec. 5 incident to the Mendocino County Sheriff’s Department, the Mendocino County district attorney, the Mendocino County grand jury and the FBI. Kemp spoke with an ATF spokesperson who said the agency wasn’t involved in Flatten’s traffic stop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11673519\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 695px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11673519\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Flatten-Press-Release.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"695\" height=\"503\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Flatten-Press-Release.jpg 695w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Flatten-Press-Release-160x116.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Flatten-Press-Release-240x174.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Flatten-Press-Release-375x271.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Flatten-Press-Release-520x376.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 695px) 100vw, 695px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From a Rohnert Park Department of Public Safety press release issued on Feb. 13, 2018.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Mr. Flatten did contact the FBI and the information he provided, we were not able to corroborate it as reported,” FBI spokesperson Prentice Danner said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Mendocino County Sheriff’s Department said it wasn’t their case and pointed to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4490352-180213-RPDPS-Traffic-Stop-Leads-to-Cannabis.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">press release\u003c/a> from Rohnert Park police written on Feb. 13, 2018, not long after Flatten’s stop. The statement, written by Tatum and Cmdr. Jeff Taylor, touted a large “black market” marijuana bust on Highway 101 during the month of December.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rohnert Park produced an \u003ca href=\"http://kymkemp.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/17-5373-PUBLIC-REDACTION-3-26-18-W-EVIDENCE-SHEET.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">incident report\u003c/a> of the Dec. 5 stop of Flatten, also written by Tatum, that diverges in many places from Flatten’s account.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The redacted report doesn’t include any names. It describes a traffic stop involving a white Mercedes-Benz with no license plates. Yet Flatten said he drove a Kia rental car with California license plates. The report says that 30 pounds of marijuana and several hundred containers of hash were seized from the person driving the Mercedes. Flatten maintains he had 3 pounds of marijuana with him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Records show that Officer Huffaker did book 30 pounds of \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4499600-FlattenIncidentReport.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">seized marijuana into evidence\u003c/a>, but not until Dec. 18, 2017, nearly two weeks later. The several hundred containers of hash are not mentioned in the evidence log.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flatten doesn’t believe Tatum was among the two officers who stopped him, although he does think Rohnert Park Officer Huffaker was one of the officers who pulled him over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11673535\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11673535\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Flatten-incident-report-shot-800x383.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"383\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Flatten-incident-report-shot-800x383.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Flatten-incident-report-shot-160x77.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Flatten-incident-report-shot-1020x488.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Flatten-incident-report-shot-1200x574.png 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Flatten-incident-report-shot-1180x564.png 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Flatten-incident-report-shot-960x459.png 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Flatten-incident-report-shot-240x115.png 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Flatten-incident-report-shot-375x179.png 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Flatten-incident-report-shot-520x249.png 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Flatten-incident-report-shot.png 1219w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An excerpt from the incident report written by Jacy Tatum\u003cbr>and referenced in response to Zeke Flatten’s allegations.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The report says a CHP officer and trainee assisted on Flatten’s stop. But a CHP spokesman wrote in an email, “There is no dispatch record of us assisting with this incident and no one recalls it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flatten said he thinks Tatum crafted this report after the fact to cover up an illegal stop and seizure by police officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I felt very strongly that I was robbed by legitimate police officers,” Flatten said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finally, the report said the case was referred to the Sonoma County district attorney for prosecution. The Sonoma County District Attorney’s Office has no record that Rohnert Park ever referred a case against Flatten. There are no charges against him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city of Rohnert Park would not respond to questions about this incident, but it is investigating. Attorney Justin Buffington, who is representing Tatum and Huffaker, confirmed the officers are on leave pending an administrative investigation related to Flatten. He stressed that the city’s probe is not a criminal investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tatum and Huffaker did not wish to comment for this story, according to Buffington.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Seizing Cash\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is not the first time Rohnert Park police officers have faced allegations of unlawful seizure. A gambler from Las Vegas named Lucas Serafine alleges in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4486452-Serafine260271Combined.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lawsuit\u003c/a> against the City of Rohnert Park that Tatum and Rohnert Park police Officer Nick Miller unlawfully seized more than $120,000 from him on March 10, 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Serafine was also in a rental car traveling on Highway 101 near Cloverdale with a friend when he said the two officers pulled him over for allegedly driving too fast in the rain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Serafine said he was headed to a high-stakes poker game at the Bear River Casino in Humboldt County and that the large amount of cash in the car was cash from a lawsuit he settled with the California Department of Corrections, and a workers’ compensation claim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The officers suspected Serafine’s money was related to drug purchase or sales, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4486453-Serafine1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">court documents\u003c/a>, and seized it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He [Tatum] looks me in the eyes, pointing his finger pushing on my chest as he does it,” Serafine remembered Tatum saying before he and Officer Miller drove away, “‘I took $1.2 million off the road this year. Nobody shows up for it and neither will you’.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11673821\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11673821\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31347_IMG_3562-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Highway 101 in Cloverdale.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31347_IMG_3562-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31347_IMG_3562-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31347_IMG_3562-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31347_IMG_3562-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31347_IMG_3562-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31347_IMG_3562-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31347_IMG_3562-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31347_IMG_3562-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31347_IMG_3562-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31347_IMG_3562-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Highway 101 in Cloverdale. \u003ccite>(Adam Grossberg/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A review of incident reports provided by Rohnert Park in response to a public records request back up the statement. KQED reviewed 23 incident reports on traffic stops involving Tatum. The city continues to provide more reports on a rolling basis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between late 2013 and the end of 2016, Tatum was involved in stops that resulted in the confiscation of well over $1 million in cash, according to the incident reports released so far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department saw a 182 percent increase in funds from asset forfeitures between 2015 and 2016. According to \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/publications\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">data reported\u003c/a> to the California Attorney General’s Office, Rohnert Park police netted $756,062 in 2016, an increase of nearly half a million dollars from the year before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Serafine’s case, $121,920 was logged into evidence and turned over to the district attorney for asset forfeiture proceedings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On June 28, 2016, Serafine’s lawyer sent a \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4499502-Notice-to-Rohnert-Park-Regarding-Accounting.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">letter\u003c/a> to Rohnert Park contesting the amount of money seized, but Serafine says he did not get a response. Serafine said he actually had $132,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district attorney brought a civil action to seize Serafine’s cash — a process called asset forfeiture. Serafine provided the prosecutors with proof of income for most of the cash and eventually got $100,000 of his money returned to him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sonoma County District Attorney’s Office declined to comment on Serafine’s asset forfeiture case or to say whether they investigated Serafine’s dispute about the amount of cash seized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city is \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4499961-Serafine260271Combined.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fighting\u003c/a> Serafine’s lawsuit alleging police officers inappropriately confiscated his cash. A trial in that case is scheduled for November of this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Serafine has a criminal history, including a conviction in 2001 when he was 18, for unlawful sex with a minor. Serafine was forthcoming about his record.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">\u003cspan style=\"font-size: x-large\">‘\u003cstrong>That is a very strong indication\u003c/strong>, based on the law, that the complaints, assuming there were such, were deemed frivolous by the department.’\u003c/span>\u003ccite>Justin Buffington,\u003cbr>\nAttorney for Sgt. Jacy Tatum and Officer Joseph Huffaker\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>And Zeke Flatten admits he didn’t have a legal license to transport marijuana, but he said that still doesn’t give law enforcement the right to essentially steal from people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I knew that what these officers were doing was so much of abuse of power and so just wrong for police officers to be doing that,” Flatten said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tatum’s attorney, Justin Buffington, said he is not under investigation for any additional matters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To my knowledge, none of the other matters [aside from the Flatten stop] that you referenced are, or have been, the subject of internal investigations undertaken by the department,” Buffington wrote in an email. “That is a very strong indication, based on the law, that the complaints, assuming there were such, were deemed frivolous by the department.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>An Unreliable Witness\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least a year before Flatten went public with his allegations against Rohnert Park police, Tatum was known by prosecutors to have written false information in police reports and to have testified dishonestly in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He [Tatum] doesn’t have a problem lying, and he does so with some regularity,” said Izaak Schwaiger a civil rights and defense attorney who has had run-ins with Tatum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schwaiger, who was a Sonoma County prosecutor from 2010 to 2012, said then-officer Tatum already had a reputation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“His testimony was not of the highest quality,” Schwaiger said. “And sometimes gave rise to people disbelieving it, even on the side of law enforcement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later, when Schwaiger became a defense attorney, the stories about Tatum mounted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED has spoken to five defense attorneys in Sonoma County who say their clients alleged that Sgt. Tatum and often his partners stopped them on a flimsy pretext, fabricated police reports, and unlawfully seized cash and marijuana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2016 Sgt. Tatum entered false information into an incident report. He and Huffaker pulled over a New Jersey man named Konstantine Charalidis, who the DA charged with having a concealed weapon. Charalidis’ attorney, Evan Zelig, provided KQED with Huffaker’s body-camera footage from the stop. It contradicts the police report written by Tatum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4499497-CharalidisPoliceReport.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">incident report\u003c/a> says that a knife taken off Charalidis was “completely concealed” by his clothing. Huffaker’s body-camera footage shows Charalidis immediately pointed out both knives, neither of which were concealed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a difference between incorrect police reports and police reports that are falsified,” Zelig said. “The one with Mr. Charalidis, this was not incorrect. It was just falsified. The facts in there were not true.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the body-camera footage, both Huffaker and Tatum ask repeatedly whether there is any cash in the car, which Charalidis and his friend deny. Then Tatum says on the body-camera video he found $10,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11673820\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11673820\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/BWC-Screen-Shot-0013-seconds-800x453.jpg\" alt=\"A screenshot from his body camera footage captures Rohnert Park Department of Public Safety Officer Joseph Huffaker reaching to remove two knives from Konstantine Charalidis' clothing after Charalidis immediately told the officer he had them. Both knives were unconcealed throughout the encounter.\" width=\"800\" height=\"453\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/BWC-Screen-Shot-0013-seconds-800x453.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/BWC-Screen-Shot-0013-seconds-160x91.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/BWC-Screen-Shot-0013-seconds-1020x577.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/BWC-Screen-Shot-0013-seconds-1200x679.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/BWC-Screen-Shot-0013-seconds-1180x668.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/BWC-Screen-Shot-0013-seconds-960x543.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/BWC-Screen-Shot-0013-seconds-240x136.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/BWC-Screen-Shot-0013-seconds-375x212.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/BWC-Screen-Shot-0013-seconds-520x294.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/BWC-Screen-Shot-0013-seconds.jpg 1214w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A screenshot from his body camera footage captures Rohnert Park Department of Public Safety Officer Joseph Huffaker reaching to remove two knives from Konstantine Charalidis’ clothing after Charalidis immediately told the officer he had them. Both knives were unconcealed throughout the encounter. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Evin Zelig)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Zelig said the officers became angry at Charalidis because he wouldn’t admit that $10,000 was related to illegal activity, which would have allowed them to seize it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Give us fucking bullshit ass fucking answers, that’s what happens,” one of the officers says on the body-camera footage as Charalidis stands handcuffed. “We’re going to see a judge.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The police report does not mention any money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was absolutely an unlawful arrest,” said Zelig, “that they did solely because he would not give them the money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors dismissed the charges against Charalidis because of the body-camera footage. Zelig says his client still had to pay attorneys fees, and deal with the hassle of a California court case while living in New Jersey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a separate 2016 case, Schwaiger suspected Tatum was lying about his justification for a traffic stop. He collected \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4486459-JurewiczCombined.html#document/p1/a425643\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sworn statements\u003c/a> from three other defense attorneys who said Tatum was dishonest and detailed specific instances of him lying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tatum’s dishonest testimony in that case led him to be placed on a list of officers with credibility issues maintained by the Sonoma County District Attorney’s Office, Schwaiger and other defense attorneys said. Tatum gave shifting explanations in an attempt to justify the traffic stop and was caught lying on the witness stand. A judge dismissed the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">\u003cspan style=\"font-size: x-large\">‘\u003cstrong>If or when concerns are raised\u003c/strong> about police officer conduct, we take the concerns seriously.’\u003c/span>\u003ccite>Don Schwartz,\u003cbr>\nRohnert Park Assistant City Manager\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Being on what’s called “the Brady list” meant, after that case, prosecutors had a duty to disclose evidence of Tatum’s past dishonest testimony to defense attorneys, who can use it to attack his credibility if he’s called as a witness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sonoma County District Attorney’s Office declined to comment on Tatum’s credibility as a witness, but no perjury charges have been filed against him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schwaiger and another defense attorney say they were both interviewed by an investigator for the DA’s office regarding Tatum, but prosecutors would not say what the nature or the outcome of this investigation was.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People want to believe police officers because we don’t want to live in a world where cops can’t be trusted,” Schwaiger said. “That’s a scary world. Those are the people that are here to protect us. They’re the people here to keep us safe. And if they can’t be trusted, who can be?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Broken Trust\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years, unlawful seizures and asset forfeitures were often considered by people in the marijuana industry as the cost of doing business. But now, legalization is offering men like Huedell Freeman a path to legitimacy. He pays taxes and permit fees — \u003cem>those\u003c/em> are the costs of doing business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Freeman remembered the day in 2015 when a deputy from the Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office took his picture in front of his cannabis farm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“‘You don’t know how weird this is for me’,” Freeman recalled saying to the deputy. “And he laughed and he said, ‘I think I do,’ he said. ‘We used to call this evidence. Now we call it verification’.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was scary to go legal, Freeman said, but it felt good, too: no more lying, no more hiding, no more risk of going to prison for doing what he loves. Now he grows more than a dozen varieties of cannabis that are tailored to specific medical ailments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t care about the 22-year-olds that want to get stoned and park on the couch,” he said. “I have nothing against that, but that’s not why I do this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11673823\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11673823\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31334_IMG_2735-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Huedell Freeman.\" 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. \u003ccite>(Sukey Lewis/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Freeman said he explained all this to Tatum and Huffaker. He had nothing to hide. He gave them the name and phone number of Colin Stewart, manager and partner at The Higher Path dispensary in Sherman Oaks. Huffaker spoke to Stewart and to Freeman’s attorney, Hannah Nelson, who both confirmed what Freeman said: His cannabis was for medicine, not the black market. He was legit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the officers came back and told Freeman that they were seizing his property because he did not have a license issued by the state to transport marijuana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state Bureau of Cannabis Control declined to comment for this story and refused repeated requests to explain licensing and regulations for transporting marijuana legally in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The officers wrote Freeman a \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4499612-Citation.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">citation\u003c/a> for possessing more than an ounce of marijuana, but they did not give him any documentation for the property they seized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sonoma County District Attorney’s Office initially said no case against Freeman was ever referred to them. However, on July 2, the district attorney’s office provided an undated referral from Tatum requesting Freeman be charged with unlawfully possessing marijuana. Prosecutors did not file charges in the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Freeman said he called the Rohnert Park Department of Public Safety the next day. Sgt. Eric Matzen assured him that his cannabis was safe and that if the department determined its legality, he would get it back, Freeman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Freeman’s attorney \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4499501-Nelson-Letter.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote\u003c/a> to the city and asked for it to return her client’s property. But the city of Rohnert Park never returned Freeman’s cannabis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On June 27, 2017, he filed a claim against the city of Rohnert Park for the value of his cannabis. The city has rejected his claim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assistant City Manager Don Schwartz would not respond to a series of detailed questions about traffic stops by its officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Rohnert Park is committed to compliance with the law and the constitution and its mission to serve and protect the public,” Schwartz wrote in an emailed response. “If or when concerns are raised about police officer conduct, we take the concerns seriously and investigate as each situation may warrant. Once all of the facts are known, we take any and all appropriate measures.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The statement continued: “Rohnert Park participated in these [interdiction] efforts to reduce the flow of illegal drugs to Sonoma County, including the City of Rohnert Park,” Schwartz wrote. “Recreational marijuana was illegal until January 1, 2018.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Freeman said he has still not recovered from the financial loss of his property. But he said even harder to recover is the faith he lost in a system that promised to protect him if he came out of the shadows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They broke my trust,” Freeman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 12:05 p.m. Saturday, June 23:\u003c/strong> Jacy Tatum no longer works for the city of Rohnert Park, according to Assistant City Manager Don Schwartz. He said Officer Joseph Huffaker is still employed by the city. Schwartz said an investigation into the officers is ongoing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Correction: KQED learned after publication that Rohnert Park police requested prosecutors file charges against Huedell Freeman. This post has been edited to reflect the new information.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Julie Small of KQED News and Kym Kemp contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated July 3, 2018 at 11:30 a.m.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was reported in collaboration with the \u003ca href=\"https://www.northcoastjournal.com/NewsBlog/archives/2018/06/09/highway-robbery-drivers-allege-rohnert-park-police-illegally-seized-cannabis-cash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">North Coast Journal\u003c/a> and independent reporter \u003ca href=\"http://kymkemp.com/2018/06/09/highway-robbery-drivers-allege-rohnert-park-police-illegally-seized-cannabis-cash/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kym Kemp\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Huedell Freeman was heading south on Highway 101 through Cloverdale and was just over the Sonoma County line when he said a police squad car flipped a U-Turn across a 25-foot grass median and pulled up behind him with lights flashing.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">\u003cspan style=\"font-size: x-large\">‘\u003cstrong>He grinned and smiled\u003c/strong> at me and did not respond. At that moment I knew I’d been had. I knew that this was not a normal traffic stop.’\u003c/span>\u003ccite>Huedell Freeman\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Freeman said he was carrying 47 pounds of marijuana in his rental car that day, Dec. 29, 2016, but said he wasn’t too worried about the weed because he had a \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4499521-FreemanPermitsMendocinco.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">permit to grow\u003c/a> medical cannabis in Mendocino County. He was driving it down to his client, a licensed dispensary called \u003ca href=\"https://www.thehigherpath.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Higher Path\u003c/a> in Sherman Oaks, near Los Angeles. And, he said, he had the paperwork to prove it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It struck Freeman as odd, though, that the two police officers pulling him over weren’t from Cloverdale. They were from Rohnert Park, some 40 miles south on 101. Freeman said he’d been obeying the traffic laws, and the cruise control on the car was set at the speed limit. He expected the traffic stop to end quickly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He didn’t expect to lose a year’s worth of income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Rohnert Park Department of Public Safety Officer Joseph Huffaker approached the car, Freeman said he rolled down his window and asked why he’d been pulled over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Freeman said Huffaker told him his vehicle had “touched the white line” on the side of the road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had not, so I looked at him, and I said, ‘No I didn’t,’ ” Freeman said. “And he grinned and smiled at me and did not respond. At that moment I knew I’d been had. I knew that this was not a normal traffic stop.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then Huffaker asked if he had any marijuana in his car, Freeman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11673488\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11673488\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31332_IMG_2713-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A Rohnert Park police squad car.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31332_IMG_2713-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31332_IMG_2713-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31332_IMG_2713-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31332_IMG_2713-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31332_IMG_2713-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31332_IMG_2713-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31332_IMG_2713-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31332_IMG_2713-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31332_IMG_2713-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31332_IMG_2713-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Rohnert Park police squad car. \u003ccite>(Sukey Lewis/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Yes, I do,” Freeman remembered saying. He also carried a large battered black leather briefcase filled with documentation — what he calls his “compliance briefcase” — and he said he provided the officer with a grower’s permit issued by the Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office, contact information for The Higher Path dispensary with which he had an agreement to both grow and transport marijuana, and his compliance lawyer’s information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Essentially, Freeman was trying to be as \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4499501-Nelson-Letter.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">legitimate\u003c/a> as he could be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Freeman said that as he and Huffaker talked, another Rohnert Park officer, Sgt. Jacy Tatum, stood off to the side, barely speaking except to ask Freeman at one point about the strains of marijuana he was carrying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two officers would go on to seize that marijuana, and Freeman hasn’t seen it since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Freeman’s account of his run-in with Rohnert Park police echoes those of eight other drivers who say a group of officers from the city conducted pretextual traffic stops — those that enable authorities to detain suspects for investigation of other matters — with the goal of unlawfully seizing marijuana and cash. Four people allowed us to share their stories publicly, while five others would tell us about their encounters only if we agreed not to name them, saying they feared police retaliation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their stories suggest a pattern of questionable and potentially illegal stops and seizures over the past three years by officers from a small city along a major marijuana transportation corridor.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\u003cspan style=\"font-size: x-large\">‘\u003cstrong>When I say highway robbery\u003c/strong>, I really mean it.’\u003c/span>\u003ccite>Izaak Schwaiger,\u003cbr>\nAttorney, former prosecutor\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The city of Rohnert Park said in a statement that its police officers “joined other law enforcement agencies in drug interdiction efforts” along Highway 101 seeking drugs including “methamphetamines, opioids, cocaine, ecstasy and marijuana.” But the city says it ceased “most interdiction efforts” related to marijuana in 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is a financial benefit to the city for this work. Through a legal process called asset forfeiture, both the Rohnert Park Department of Public Safety and the Sonoma County District Attorney’s Office get to keep a cut of seized cash suspected to be the proceeds of a crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/sites/all/files/agweb/pdfs/publications/asset_forf/2016-af/2016-af.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report\u003c/a> issued by the California Attorney General shows that from 2015 to 2016, the Rohnert Park Department of Public Safety received more than $1 million in seized cash. The Sonoma County District Attorney received $188,419 of the money from assets seized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tatum was responsible for much of that asset forfeiture windfall to his local department. In 2015, the mayor \u003ca href=\"http://rpcity.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=569\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">publicly recognized\u003c/a> him for his drug prevention work. Tatum \u003ca href=\"http://rpcity.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=569\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">thanked the City Council\u003c/a> for allowing him the opportunity to “fight the war on drugs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Tatum has another reputation: A growing chorus of defense attorneys say he’s a rogue cop. He’s being sued for unlawfully taking a man’s cash, and he has a documented history of dishonesty on the witness stand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I say highway robbery, I really mean it,” Sonoma County defense attorney Izaak Schwaiger said. “Officer Tatum has been involved in dozens of questionable traffic stops both above and below the Mendocino-Sonoma County line, where he has seized marijuana farmers’ product and/or their cash and given them no receipt and no criminal charges were ever brought.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now Tatum and his partner, Joseph Huffaker, are \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\">under investigation\u003c/a> by the city of Rohnert Park. They are both on leave, according to their attorney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Allegations of a Cover-Up\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rohnert Park began an administrative investigation around April of this year after independent reporter Kym Kemp \u003ca href=\"http://kymkemp.com/2018/02/11/former-undercover-officer-involved-in-developing-cannabis-products-accuses-hopland-police-chief-of-theft-corruption-and-civil-rights-violations/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">published\u003c/a> a \u003ca href=\"http://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\">series\u003c/a> of articles about another suspect traffic stop and marijuana seizure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Texas resident Zeke \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4499590-Statement-Flatten.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Flatten said\u003c/a> he was driving south on Highway 101 last December, when an unmarked black Ford Police Interceptor pulled him over just north of the Mendocino County line, about 50 miles north of Rohnert Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11673497\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 410px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-11673497\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31338_alt_743-800x655.jpg\" alt=\"Jacy Tatum is sworn in as a Rohnert Park police sergeant in July, 2015.\" width=\"410\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31338_alt_743-800x655.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31338_alt_743-160x131.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31338_alt_743-1020x835.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31338_alt_743-1200x982.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31338_alt_743.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31338_alt_743-1180x966.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31338_alt_743-960x786.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31338_alt_743-240x196.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31338_alt_743-375x307.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31338_alt_743-520x425.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 410px) 100vw, 410px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jacy Tatum is sworn in as a Rohnert Park police sergeant in July 2015. \u003ccite>(City of Rohnert Park Police & Fire Facebook page)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Flatten, like Freeman, was also in a rental car and said he, too, was not speeding or violating any traffic laws. He pulled over and showed the officer his driver’s license and the rental agreement for his car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The officers did not identify what agency they were with, Flatten said, and he noticed they were not wearing departmental police badges or identifying name tags.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At that point I really felt something was wrong,” Flatten said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flatten said he had 3 pounds of marijuana in his car from a farm in Humboldt County and he was taking it to a laboratory in Santa Rosa for testing. He said he was working on developing a number of cannabis products he hoped to bring to market after California’s law allowing recreational use for adults kicked in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flatten also offered to show the officers his doctor’s prescription for medical cannabis, but he said they weren’t interested.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The officers said they were working for the ATF — the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives — according to Flatten. He said they took his marijuana and left him on the side of the road, all in just a few minutes. They did not issue him a citation or arrest him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flatten reported the Dec. 5 incident to the Mendocino County Sheriff’s Department, the Mendocino County district attorney, the Mendocino County grand jury and the FBI. Kemp spoke with an ATF spokesperson who said the agency wasn’t involved in Flatten’s traffic stop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11673519\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 695px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11673519\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Flatten-Press-Release.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"695\" height=\"503\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Flatten-Press-Release.jpg 695w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Flatten-Press-Release-160x116.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Flatten-Press-Release-240x174.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Flatten-Press-Release-375x271.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Flatten-Press-Release-520x376.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 695px) 100vw, 695px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From a Rohnert Park Department of Public Safety press release issued on Feb. 13, 2018.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Mr. Flatten did contact the FBI and the information he provided, we were not able to corroborate it as reported,” FBI spokesperson Prentice Danner said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Mendocino County Sheriff’s Department said it wasn’t their case and pointed to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4490352-180213-RPDPS-Traffic-Stop-Leads-to-Cannabis.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">press release\u003c/a> from Rohnert Park police written on Feb. 13, 2018, not long after Flatten’s stop. The statement, written by Tatum and Cmdr. Jeff Taylor, touted a large “black market” marijuana bust on Highway 101 during the month of December.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rohnert Park produced an \u003ca href=\"http://kymkemp.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/17-5373-PUBLIC-REDACTION-3-26-18-W-EVIDENCE-SHEET.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">incident report\u003c/a> of the Dec. 5 stop of Flatten, also written by Tatum, that diverges in many places from Flatten’s account.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The redacted report doesn’t include any names. It describes a traffic stop involving a white Mercedes-Benz with no license plates. Yet Flatten said he drove a Kia rental car with California license plates. The report says that 30 pounds of marijuana and several hundred containers of hash were seized from the person driving the Mercedes. Flatten maintains he had 3 pounds of marijuana with him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Records show that Officer Huffaker did book 30 pounds of \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4499600-FlattenIncidentReport.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">seized marijuana into evidence\u003c/a>, but not until Dec. 18, 2017, nearly two weeks later. The several hundred containers of hash are not mentioned in the evidence log.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flatten doesn’t believe Tatum was among the two officers who stopped him, although he does think Rohnert Park Officer Huffaker was one of the officers who pulled him over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11673535\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11673535\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Flatten-incident-report-shot-800x383.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"383\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Flatten-incident-report-shot-800x383.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Flatten-incident-report-shot-160x77.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Flatten-incident-report-shot-1020x488.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Flatten-incident-report-shot-1200x574.png 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Flatten-incident-report-shot-1180x564.png 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Flatten-incident-report-shot-960x459.png 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Flatten-incident-report-shot-240x115.png 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Flatten-incident-report-shot-375x179.png 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Flatten-incident-report-shot-520x249.png 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/Flatten-incident-report-shot.png 1219w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An excerpt from the incident report written by Jacy Tatum\u003cbr>and referenced in response to Zeke Flatten’s allegations.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The report says a CHP officer and trainee assisted on Flatten’s stop. But a CHP spokesman wrote in an email, “There is no dispatch record of us assisting with this incident and no one recalls it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flatten said he thinks Tatum crafted this report after the fact to cover up an illegal stop and seizure by police officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I felt very strongly that I was robbed by legitimate police officers,” Flatten said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finally, the report said the case was referred to the Sonoma County district attorney for prosecution. The Sonoma County District Attorney’s Office has no record that Rohnert Park ever referred a case against Flatten. There are no charges against him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city of Rohnert Park would not respond to questions about this incident, but it is investigating. Attorney Justin Buffington, who is representing Tatum and Huffaker, confirmed the officers are on leave pending an administrative investigation related to Flatten. He stressed that the city’s probe is not a criminal investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tatum and Huffaker did not wish to comment for this story, according to Buffington.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Seizing Cash\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is not the first time Rohnert Park police officers have faced allegations of unlawful seizure. A gambler from Las Vegas named Lucas Serafine alleges in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4486452-Serafine260271Combined.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lawsuit\u003c/a> against the City of Rohnert Park that Tatum and Rohnert Park police Officer Nick Miller unlawfully seized more than $120,000 from him on March 10, 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Serafine was also in a rental car traveling on Highway 101 near Cloverdale with a friend when he said the two officers pulled him over for allegedly driving too fast in the rain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Serafine said he was headed to a high-stakes poker game at the Bear River Casino in Humboldt County and that the large amount of cash in the car was cash from a lawsuit he settled with the California Department of Corrections, and a workers’ compensation claim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The officers suspected Serafine’s money was related to drug purchase or sales, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4486453-Serafine1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">court documents\u003c/a>, and seized it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He [Tatum] looks me in the eyes, pointing his finger pushing on my chest as he does it,” Serafine remembered Tatum saying before he and Officer Miller drove away, “‘I took $1.2 million off the road this year. Nobody shows up for it and neither will you’.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11673821\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11673821\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31347_IMG_3562-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Highway 101 in Cloverdale.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31347_IMG_3562-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31347_IMG_3562-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31347_IMG_3562-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31347_IMG_3562-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31347_IMG_3562-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31347_IMG_3562-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31347_IMG_3562-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31347_IMG_3562-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31347_IMG_3562-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31347_IMG_3562-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Highway 101 in Cloverdale. \u003ccite>(Adam Grossberg/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A review of incident reports provided by Rohnert Park in response to a public records request back up the statement. KQED reviewed 23 incident reports on traffic stops involving Tatum. The city continues to provide more reports on a rolling basis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between late 2013 and the end of 2016, Tatum was involved in stops that resulted in the confiscation of well over $1 million in cash, according to the incident reports released so far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department saw a 182 percent increase in funds from asset forfeitures between 2015 and 2016. According to \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/publications\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">data reported\u003c/a> to the California Attorney General’s Office, Rohnert Park police netted $756,062 in 2016, an increase of nearly half a million dollars from the year before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Serafine’s case, $121,920 was logged into evidence and turned over to the district attorney for asset forfeiture proceedings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On June 28, 2016, Serafine’s lawyer sent a \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4499502-Notice-to-Rohnert-Park-Regarding-Accounting.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">letter\u003c/a> to Rohnert Park contesting the amount of money seized, but Serafine says he did not get a response. Serafine said he actually had $132,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Huffaker’s body-camera footage shows Charalidis immediately pointed out both knives, neither of which were concealed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a difference between incorrect police reports and police reports that are falsified,” Zelig said. “The one with Mr. Charalidis, this was not incorrect. It was just falsified. The facts in there were not true.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the body-camera footage, both Huffaker and Tatum ask repeatedly whether there is any cash in the car, which Charalidis and his friend deny. 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Both knives were unconcealed throughout the encounter. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Evin Zelig)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Zelig said the officers became angry at Charalidis because he wouldn’t admit that $10,000 was related to illegal activity, which would have allowed them to seize it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Give us fucking bullshit ass fucking answers, that’s what happens,” one of the officers says on the body-camera footage as Charalidis stands handcuffed. “We’re going to see a judge.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The police report does not mention any money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was absolutely an unlawful arrest,” said Zelig, “that they did solely because he would not give them the money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors dismissed the charges against Charalidis because of the body-camera footage. Zelig says his client still had to pay attorneys fees, and deal with the hassle of a California court case while living in New Jersey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a separate 2016 case, Schwaiger suspected Tatum was lying about his justification for a traffic stop. He collected \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4486459-JurewiczCombined.html#document/p1/a425643\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sworn statements\u003c/a> from three other defense attorneys who said Tatum was dishonest and detailed specific instances of him lying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tatum’s dishonest testimony in that case led him to be placed on a list of officers with credibility issues maintained by the Sonoma County District Attorney’s Office, Schwaiger and other defense attorneys said. Tatum gave shifting explanations in an attempt to justify the traffic stop and was caught lying on the witness stand. A judge dismissed the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">\u003cspan style=\"font-size: x-large\">‘\u003cstrong>If or when concerns are raised\u003c/strong> about police officer conduct, we take the concerns seriously.’\u003c/span>\u003ccite>Don Schwartz,\u003cbr>\nRohnert Park Assistant City Manager\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Being on what’s called “the Brady list” meant, after that case, prosecutors had a duty to disclose evidence of Tatum’s past dishonest testimony to defense attorneys, who can use it to attack his credibility if he’s called as a witness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sonoma County District Attorney’s Office declined to comment on Tatum’s credibility as a witness, but no perjury charges have been filed against him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schwaiger and another defense attorney say they were both interviewed by an investigator for the DA’s office regarding Tatum, but prosecutors would not say what the nature or the outcome of this investigation was.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People want to believe police officers because we don’t want to live in a world where cops can’t be trusted,” Schwaiger said. “That’s a scary world. Those are the people that are here to protect us. They’re the people here to keep us safe. And if they can’t be trusted, who can be?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Broken Trust\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years, unlawful seizures and asset forfeitures were often considered by people in the marijuana industry as the cost of doing business. But now, legalization is offering men like Huedell Freeman a path to legitimacy. He pays taxes and permit fees — \u003cem>those\u003c/em> are the costs of doing business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Freeman remembered the day in 2015 when a deputy from the Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office took his picture in front of his cannabis farm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“‘You don’t know how weird this is for me’,” Freeman recalled saying to the deputy. “And he laughed and he said, ‘I think I do,’ he said. ‘We used to call this evidence. Now we call it verification’.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was scary to go legal, Freeman said, but it felt good, too: no more lying, no more hiding, no more risk of going to prison for doing what he loves. Now he grows more than a dozen varieties of cannabis that are tailored to specific medical ailments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t care about the 22-year-olds that want to get stoned and park on the couch,” he said. “I have nothing against that, but that’s not why I do this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11673823\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11673823\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/06/RS31334_IMG_2735-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Huedell Freeman.\" 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. \u003ccite>(Sukey Lewis/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Freeman said he explained all this to Tatum and Huffaker. He had nothing to hide. He gave them the name and phone number of Colin Stewart, manager and partner at The Higher Path dispensary in Sherman Oaks. Huffaker spoke to Stewart and to Freeman’s attorney, Hannah Nelson, who both confirmed what Freeman said: His cannabis was for medicine, not the black market. 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Prosecutors did not file charges in the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Freeman said he called the Rohnert Park Department of Public Safety the next day. Sgt. Eric Matzen assured him that his cannabis was safe and that if the department determined its legality, he would get it back, Freeman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Freeman’s attorney \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4499501-Nelson-Letter.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote\u003c/a> to the city and asked for it to return her client’s property. But the city of Rohnert Park never returned Freeman’s cannabis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On June 27, 2017, he filed a claim against the city of Rohnert Park for the value of his cannabis. 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So were those who feared that casino traffic would cause gridlock on roads leading to the complex.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How bad was the traffic when the casino opened this morning? Check out this tweet from the city of Rohnert Park:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\u003cp>The Graton Casino is filled to capacity at this time! Traffic through Rohnert Park and on surface streets in the area is extremely congested\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— City of Rohnert Park (@RPTrafficUpdate) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/RPTrafficUpdate/statuses/397807255933816832\">November 5, 2013\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Or this one, from Santa Rosa Press Democrat reporter \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/BrettWilkison\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brett Wilkinson\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\u003cp>Overflow crowd at casino opening in Rohnert Park likened to “dumbest zombie movie you’ve ever seen” by CHP spokesman \u003ca href=\"http://t.co/KTPtKhXqb5\">http://t.co/KTPtKhXqb5\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Brett Wilkison (@BrettWilkison) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/BrettWilkison/statuses/397840026568232960\">November 5, 2013\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>What’s all the fuss about? Here’s our \u003cstrong>original post: \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s game on for Northern California’s largest tribal casino.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The $800 million \u003ca href=\"https://mail.kqed.org/owa/redir.aspx?C=5409900bdf804664aa8df016df1c3c38&URL=https%3a%2f%2fwww.gratonresortcasino.com%2f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Graton Resort & Casino\u003c/a>, just outside Rohnert Park in southern Sonoma County, officially opens its doors at 10 a.m. The 24/7 operation includes 3,000 slot and video poker machines, 144 gaming tables, a food court and four full-service restaurants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s huge and it’s gorgeous,” said Vera Blanquie, membership representative at the Rohnert Park Chamber of Commerce. She says she and her colleagues received a private tour of the complex about two months ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Marble floor, huge chandeliers – we kind of felt like we were in Las Vegas,” she laughed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The casino, owned by the \u003ca href=\"https://mail.kqed.org/owa/redir.aspx?C=5409900bdf804664aa8df016df1c3c38&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.gratonrancheria.com%2fourpeople.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria\u003c/a>, faced strong opposition from the surrounding community when planning began 10 years ago, and \u003ca href=\"https://mail.kqed.org/owa/redir.aspx?C=5409900bdf804664aa8df016df1c3c38&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.stopthecasino101.com%2f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a group of Sonoma County residents\u003c/a> \u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>continues to wage a legal battle to shut it down. Opponents, and even some supporters, say an influx of new visitors to the region will likely mean more crime, pollution and traffic congestion, not to mention competition for local businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the eve of the grand opening, however, many in Rohnert Park expressed optimism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re really excited about having them as a neighbor,” said Danny Kotzin, manager of the In-N-Out Burger near the casino’s main entrance. Kotzin says he’s spent the past several months preparing for the casino opening by hiring extra restaurant staff and training them to handle larger crowds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think they’re going to do a lot for the community as far as opening up jobs for everybody,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public safety officials say they expect the casino to eventually draw between 8,000 and 10,000 people a day, but they say the first few days and weeks could draw \u003ca href=\"https://mail.kqed.org/owa/redir.aspx?C=5409900bdf804664aa8df016df1c3c38&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.pressdemocrat.com%2farticle%2f20131103%2farticles%2f131109891\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">much more traffic\u003c/a>. 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