前 Garden Grove 警官被控绑架与性侵两名同事：保释金五百万美元，已作无罪答辩
加利福尼亚州橙县 Garden Grove 市：橙县地区检察官办公室宣布，前 Garden Grove 警局警司 Charles “Chuck” William Starnes III（52岁）10月29日被美国法警逮捕，被控四项重罪，包括多项性侵与绑架指控。检方称，两起指控的袭击相隔十余年：2007年涉嫌袭击一名同局女警员，2020年3月涉嫌在 Long Beach 一家酒吧的「脱离试用期」聚会后袭击一名女文职雇员。
检方指称，2007年那起案件中，Starnes 把受害人拖出酒吧、在停车场继续袭击，直到两名同事出面制止。Starnes 2005年加入 Garden Grove 警局，此前曾任河滨县警员，后任警员协会主席、2025年任交通行动组警司；他2026年5月在停职接受性骚扰调查期间退休。
Starnes 已在庭审中作无罪答辩，目前以五百万美元保释金在押。检方表示，若全部罪名成立，他面临七年至终身监禁外加十四年的刑期。Garden Grove 警局表示将继续配合调查。上述内容目前为检方指控，有待法庭审理认定。
Former Garden Grove Sergeant Charged With Kidnapping and Assaulting Two Colleagues
The Orange County District Attorney's Office announced that former Garden Grove police sergeant Charles “Chuck” William Starnes III, 52, was arrested on October 29 by the U.S. Marshals Service and charged with four felonies, including multiple counts of sexual assault and kidnapping, in the City of Garden Grove, Orange County, California. Prosecutors allege attacks on two colleagues more than a decade apart: a fellow officer in 2007, and a department employee in March 2020 after an 'off probation' party at a Long Beach bar.
In the 2007 case, prosecutors say Starnes dragged the woman out of the bar and into the parking lot, where the assault continued until two fellow officers stopped it. Starnes joined Garden Grove police in 2005 after serving as a Riverside County sheriff's deputy, later became president of the police officers' association, and was a Traffic Operations sergeant in 2025; he retired in May 2026 while on administrative leave under a sexual-harassment investigation.
Starnes pleaded not guilty at arraignment and remains jailed on $5 million bail. If convicted on all counts he faces seven years to life plus 14 years, prosecutors said. The department said it will keep cooperating. The charges are allegations to be determined in court.
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