警长的侦探在性侵犯案中搜索了前备受推销市长多米尼克·福波利(Dominic Foppoli)的房屋
A raid by local authorities Wednesday at the home ofDominic Foppoliescalated a now seven-month investigation into sexual assault allegations made by a rising number of women against the disgraced former Windsor mayor.
这two-hour search, which began about 8 a.m. at Foppoli’s Windsor home on Merlot Way, was led by the Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office and included members of a North Bay law enforcement task force specializing in computer evidence, officials said.
这deputies and detectives arrived in unmarked cars and declined comment as they went about their work serving a search warrant. They left the upscale suburb on Windsor’s west side after 10 a.m. with several brown paper bags filled with evidence.
这是第一份授予警长马克·埃西克(Mark Essick)于4月发起的调查在不久之后,由四名妇女反对Foppoli播出的第一组索赔。尽管官员们拒绝透露从房屋中删除了哪些物品或导致突袭的原因,但他们将这一行动描述为近几个月来公众关注的案件中向前迈出的重要一步。
埃西克说:“当然,这是案件的里程碑或进步的里程碑。”
埃西克(Essick)告诉新闻民主党人,进行了搜查的侦探和官员是来自北加州计算机犯罪工作队。
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Essick declined to elaborate on the focus, progress or timeline of the investigation but said the evidence gathered Wednesday could open new lines of inquiry for detectives.
他说:“自成立以来,我们从未停止过这种情况。”
Foppoli, who has denied committing any sex crimes and has not been charged in the case, did not respond to a voicemail and text message seeking comment Wednesday. A woman who identified herself only as a tenant at his home told The Press Democrat that Foppoli had told her he was going to Italy and would be there for “several months.”
Foppoli’s family hails from Italy and owns property outside Milan.
圣罗西·卡里略(Traci Carrillo)说,这一天标志着该案的取得了重大进展,也是对福波利指控提出指控的妇女的重要时刻。
卡里略代表七名妇女,指责富波利犯有性侵犯或不当行为。她表达了Foppoli会面临指控的信心。
“我看他被公开游行公顷ndcuffs and be charged with the crimes that I know he’s committed,” she said.
Among the seven women Carrillo represents are two whose allegations of sexual assault are not yet public knowledge, she said. Carrillo declined to characterize those allegations, other than to say that they were “consistent with the pattern of behavior that has been publicly discussed.”
She also declined to say when the alleged assaults occurred, but did say that Foppoli was an elected official at the time and that the alleged crimes took place in Sonoma County.
Foppoli was elected to the Windsor Town Council in 2014 when he was 32, becoming the youngest council member in the town’s history.He first served as the town’s appointed mayor in 2018 and won its inaugural race for a directly elected mayor’s post in 2020.
Essick confirmed investigators had spoken with the two women described by Carrillo as new additions to the case against Foppoli. When he resigned in late May, nine women had publicly shared their accounts of alleged assault or abuse by Foppoli. They ranged from rape to groping and forced oral copulation.
埃西克(Essick)拒绝透露其中有多少人或个人是调查的重点。
埃西克说:“当您进行调查时,有时您会有新的受害者提出新的指控,有时您有新的证据可以从那些开放新途径的受害者那里移交给您。”
卡里略(Carrillo)在五月对执法调查的紧迫性和侵略性表示沮丧,他说,随后几个月中,她的担忧得到了缓解。
“I have been aware of regular progress of an active and ongoing investigation,” Carrillo said.
她说,新指控可能扩大了调查的范围。她补充说:“这只是调查比最初预期的更大的生活。”
卡里略(Carrillo)拒绝透露其他客户的命名,称她将尊重司法系统为保持性侵犯受害者身份保密的努力,即使某些妇女已经公开了。一个是以斯帖·莱姆斯(Esther Lemus), a Windsor councilwoman and former prosecutor who left the Sonoma County District Attorney’s Office in August. Lemus has accused Foppoli of sexual assault on two occasions.
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