Lapd Officer Charged With Stealing Police Radio, Failing To Pay For Baby Stroller

[Satanica]

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-lapd-officer-charged-20160829-snap-story.html

A Los Angeles police officer pleaded not guilty Monday to a series of criminal charges, including theft of a police radio and an illegal search of a law enforcement database.

Prosecutors also allege that Jessica Guzzetti failed to pay for a baby stroller, according to a criminal complaint filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court.

Guzzetti, 27, entered the not-guilty plea in a Van Nuys courtroom, her first court appearance since she was charged July 25 with the three misdemeanor counts.
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The first count alleges that Guzzetti stole an LAPD radio valued at $3,470.30 in 2013. Another count alleges that she accessed information from a Department of Justice computer database in 2014. Prosecutors also contend that Guzzetti failed to pay for the baby stroller in August 2015.

Jackie Robnett, who is listed in court records as the rightful owner of the baby stroller, told The Times that Guzzetti and her boyfriend responded to a Craigslist ad in 2015 for a stroller that retailed for about $1,200. Robnett said she was selling it for about $250.

Guzzetti and her boyfriend inspected the stroller and offered to pay for it with a check. Robnett said she doesn’t normally accept checks in Craigslist transactions but made an exception.

“We trusted her because she was a police officer,” Robnett said. “She said she was with LAPD and that made us comfortable.”

When the check didn’t go through, Robnett repeatedly tried to reach out to Guzzetti and her boyfriend for the payment or for the return of the stroller. But Guzzetti responded that she wanted to keep the stroller.

“I offered so many other options: PayPal, Venmo,” Robnett said. “There’s so many ways to transfer money.”

With mounting frustration, Robnett learned that Guzzetti was working in a police station in the San Fernando Valley, called a supervisor there and reported the incident. She provided testimony to a detective with LAPD’s internal affairs, she said.

Police later contacted Robnett and asked her to come to a station to see a stroller that had been recovered. But it was not the stroller Robnett said she had sold to Guzzetti and her boyfriend.

To date, Robnett has not received her stroller or money compensating her for the stroller. She was not informed that Guzzetti had been charged until a reporter contacted her Monday evening.
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[Brenni]

...and how stupid and pathetic do you look a common thief.
White trash ... protect and serve this scumbag.

 

[Keepalowprofile]

stroller that retailed for about $1,200.

I just realized how poor I am.
This baby stroller cost 4 times as much as the car I'm driving right now.

I hope I don't find out I'm white trash.

 

[Muriel Schwenck]

I bet there have been multiple issues with this woman, these are the items the police and DA could press charges on.

 

[lithiumgirl]

“We trusted her because she was a police officer,” Robnett said. “She said she was with LAPD and that made us comfortable.”

What...Oh you're the police...you have a government job...CASH.

Dummy!

 

[mybum62]

So many entitled assholes in this world who feel they are owed by everyone.

 

[Satanica]

I bet there have been multiple issues with this woman, these are the items the police and DA could press charges on.

I snipped out some of her history at the link. You are, indeed, correct.

 

[Keepalowprofile]

"Failing to pay gor a baby stroller"

Shouldn't it be writing a bad check?

 

[CRWX]

...and how stupid and pathetic do you look a common thief.
White trash ... protect and serve this scumbag.

I had no idea we had ASS and MIDDLE FINGER emojis.

Look, this one's Asshat.
This must be Spark up a Fatty.

 

[Brenni]

I had no idea we had ASS and MIDDLE FINGER emojis.

Look, this one's Asshat.
This must be Spark up a Fatty.

:nana: :cheers: :fish:


:bye:

 

[CRWX]

:nana: :cheers: :fish:


:bye:

Random cool emojis or is this a secret message to decipher?

Interesting side, one of the smileys in your story is my real last name.

 

[Muriel Schwenck]

Thanks for the pointer @Satanica
I found some other details here. She's a piece o work! Makes one wonder if she skated into the job with poor qualifications so the LAPD could fill a female quota.

http://mynewsla.com/crime/2016/08/3...ng-police-radio-not-paying-for-baby-stroller/

"The prosecution of Guzzetti, a Lancaster resident, is the latest twist in her LAPD career. She sued the city in January 2014, alleging she was sexually harassed by a supervisor in the LAPD’s jail division and was retaliated against for spurning a supervisor’s sexual advances. Guzzetti’s attorney in the sexual harassment lawsuit, Greg Smith, later asked a judge to release him and his firm from the case.

Guzzetti later represented herself, but a judge dismissed the lawsuit after she failed to show up to two consecutive hearings, according to court records cited by The Times.

She’s also being sued in federal court, along with two other officers, for shooting and severely wounding a schizophrenic16-year-old boy armed with two knives in May 2013."