Inglewood police officers have repeatedly been embroiled in sex-related scandals over the last five years, according to court documents, law enforcement records and interviews. Navarreta denied receiving the images e-mailed to him by the child-porn suspect.
FBI agents were unable to examine the computers he used because they had been sold or reported stolen. An arbitrator found there was not enough evidence to prove Navarreta knowingly received child porn but concluded that he lied to the FBI and Inglewood investigators and should be fired.
A judge upheld his termination. Manzi, according to an internal affairs report included in court records, played for on-duty colleagues a videotape and an audio recording of himself having sex.
Manzi was suspended for 20 days but retired on disability before the discipline was imposed. He declined to comment. In January , another officer was accused of taking a cellphone photograph of an inmate during a strip search. The officer was suspended and then fired for unrelated misconduct. Police Chief Jacqueline Seabrooks said supervisors now monitor strip searches. In December , a woman visiting from Florida claimed that an on-duty Inglewood officer raped her and forced her to perform sexual acts while he kept his hand on his holstered gun.
The officers followed the woman back to her motel and confirmed she was a registered guest, according to the report. Lindsey then followed her to her room, telling Beak that he would check her identification, Beak told authorities.
