A Los Angeles police officer accused of sending sexually specific photographs and movies of his spouse, one other officer, to a few of their LAPD colleagues and different males faces misdemeanor expenses, in accordance with current court docket filings.
Brady Lamas, 45, was charged with six counts of disorderly conduct by distributing a personal intimate picture, in accordance with a felony criticism filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court docket on Tuesday. His bond was set at $20,000.
The charging doc suggests the pictures had been shared between Dec. 29, 2021, and Jan. 24 however presents no additional particulars. Lamas’ spouse is recognized within the doc by solely her first identify and final preliminary.
However an software for a restraining order in opposition to Lamas alleges that his spouse discovered the specific photographs on his cellphone the morning of Jan. 30. She noticed a bunch chat on the messaging app Kik through which Lamas had shared nude photographs and specific movies with a person she didn’t know, the submitting mentioned.
“As I continued scrolling by the messages, I noticed nude photographs of me that had been despatched to that very same unknown man. I didn’t know the photographs had been taken of me and didn’t give my consent for any photographs of me to be shared with anybody,” she wrote within the submitting.
She wrote that she felt “frozen and in worry” and alleged that she later found Lamas had despatched nude photographs of her to different males within the chat, in addition to to others by way of textual content message and WhatsApp.
“I additionally anxious about how my husband would react when he discovered I had found his horrible disturbing acts,” she wrote.
An LAPD spokesperson mentioned in a press release Wednesday that Lamas has been on residence project since January, when the division launched an investigation into him.
“The Division is absolutely cooperating with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Division and the District Legal professional’s Workplace with this matter and is troubled by the officer’s alleged off-duty conduct which doesn’t replicate the values of the Los Angeles Police Division,” the assertion learn.
Lamas didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark. His arraignment has been scheduled for subsequent week on the Santa Clarita Courthouse.
Within the restraining order software, Lamas’ spouse alleged that he surreptitiously took photographs of her bare physique throughout a number of visits at a health care provider’s workplace after she had breast augmentation surgical procedure. Lamas allegedly shared the pictures with different males, referring to them as “earlier than and after pics,” the submitting mentioned.
A number of the male LAPD workers who had acquired the specific photographs would strategy her at work, gazing her “intently” and making feedback similar to, “Brady is a fortunate man” and “He doesn’t know the way good he has it,” in accordance with the submitting. She discovered their feedback “uncommon” on the time, the submitting mentioned, not understanding concerning the photographs he’d despatched them.
She reported the pictures to her supervisor and went to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Division station in Santa Clarita to file a report. An inside affairs investigation was additionally opened, in accordance with the submitting.
Lamas’ spouse mentioned discovering the pictures was “devastating to my dignity” and left her feeling humiliated and afraid to return to work. She added that his actions had been “tantamount to a sexual assault.”
“My very own husband is a predator and he preyed on me,” she wrote. “I’d have most popular that he punched me within the face.”
“What’s worse is that this humiliation will preserve repeating, maybe endlessly, as a result of the personal photos and graphic movies are actually within the arms of strangers and a number of co-workers on the LAPD,” she wrote.
The case is the newest in a collection of specific photo-sharing scandals to rock the division in recent times.
Town paid out $1.5 million in 2020 to settle a lawsuit by an LAPD detective who accused a fellow officer of beating her and threatening to share sexually specific photographs he had secretly taken if she tried to finish their relationship.
And in September, a jury awarded an LAPD captain $4 million in damages after she sued the town over a nude {photograph} that was doctored to appear like her and shared across the division.
