"Briana Ortega had been home for all of three minutes when she heard a fist pounding against her door. She opened it to find a Riverside County sheriff's deputy "claiming a black man with dreadlocks had jumped over her backyard fence" and was trying to break into her La Quinta home, according to court records. Almost immediately, Ortega, 29, suspected Deputy Eric Piscatella was there for other reasons."
""You look pretty without makeup ... sorry I don't mean to be rude or unprofessional," Piscatella said, after spending a scant few seconds looking out a window for the purported suspect, according to a recording of the incident. It was the fourth time in less than a year that Piscatella had either shown up at Ortega's home or contacted her without a legitimate law enforcement purpose, according to the affidavit and lawsuit."
A Riverside County deputy allegedly arrived at a woman's home claiming a suspect had jumped her fence while the woman suspected he was there for other reasons. The deputy reportedly made a personal compliment and had contacted or visited the woman multiple times without a legitimate law enforcement purpose. Prosecutors charged the deputy with illegally using law enforcement databases to look up the woman's information; charges were later downgraded to misdemeanors and resolved with probation. The woman says she remains terrified and declined to testify. A federal civil rights lawsuit names the deputy, the department, and the county sheriff.
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