Multiple LA County Officers Charged in 2020 Pursuit and Shooting Incidents

Two former Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department deputies have been charged with violating the civil rights of a skateboarder by falsely imprisoning him in a patrol vehicle before a chase that ended in a crash, and obstructing justice to cover up the illegal detention. The defendants were on patrol on April 13, 2020, when they "unlawfully detained and falsely imprisoned the then-23-year-old victim in the back of their patrol vehicle," prosecutors said. The indictment also alleges that Vega and Hernandez obstructed justice in multiple ways to conceal and cover up their detention and false imprisonment of the skateboarder.