{"id":73413,"date":"2016-08-30T13:57:59","date_gmt":"2016-08-30T20:57:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theavtimes.com\/?p=73413"},"modified":"2017-07-30T17:28:08","modified_gmt":"2017-07-31T00:28:08","slug":"lapd-officer-pleads-not-guilty-to-various-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2016\/08\/30\/lapd-officer-pleads-not-guilty-to-various-charges\/","title":{"rendered":"LAPD officer pleads not guilty to various charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES &#8211; A Los Angeles police officer has pleaded not guilty to a series of criminal charges, including theft of a police radio and an illegal search of a law enforcement database.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors also allege that <strong>Jessica Guzzetti<\/strong>, a Lancaster resident, failed to pay for a baby stroller, according to a criminal complaint filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court and cited by the <em>Los Angeles Times<\/em> Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Guzzetti, 27, entered the not-guilty plea in a Van Nuys courtroom Monday, her first court appearance since she was charged July 25 with the three misdemeanor counts. Her attorney, R. Alex Comley, told <em>The Times<\/em> his client &#8220;acted without criminal intent.&#8221; Read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/local\/lanow\/la-me-ln-lapd-officer-charged-20160829-snap-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Los Angeles Times<\/em> article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The first count alleges that Guzzetti stole an LAPD radio valued at $3,470.30 in 2013. Another count alleges 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, giving someone who had advertised on Craigslist a check that bounced.<\/p>\n<p>The prosecution of Guzzetti is the latest twist in her LAPD career.<\/p>\n<p>She sued the city of Los Angeles in January 2014, alleging she was sexually harassed by a supervisor in the LAPD\u2019s jail division and was retaliated against for spurning a supervisor\u2019s sexual advances. Guzzetti\u2019s attorney in the sexual harassment lawsuit, Greg Smith, later asked a judge to release him and his firm from the case.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s also being sued in federal court, along with two other officers, for shooting and severely wounding a schizophrenic 16-year-old boy armed with two knives in May 2013.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES &#8211; A Los Angeles police officer has pleaded not guilty 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, a Lancaster resident, failed to pay for a baby stroller, according to a criminal complaint filed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[719,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73413"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}