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。

该工作队被称为NC3TF，为包括索诺玛在内的七个北部湾区的执法带来了“计算机法医援助”。网站。

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.

Foppoli违反了选民的广泛和几乎普遍的呼吁，在指控揭露指控后，地方，州和联邦立法者要求辞职。在5月21日宣布他将辞职之前，他面临着崭露头角的召回努力。

That move came after reality TV starFarrah Abrahamaccused him of sexual assault during an encounter in Palm Beach, Florida, at the end of March. Police there are conducting a separate investigation, and a captain said Wednesday that the search in Windsor was unrelated.

这Sonoma County search warrant documents are under a court seal, said Sgt. Juan Valencia, the Sheriff’s Office spokesman.

警长办公室在4月8日的故事发表后发起了调查旧金山纪事这四个妇女的详细指控。

从2002年到2021年，九名妇女的当前公共指控更广泛。

索诺玛县地方检察官吉尔·拉维奇（Jill Ravitch）在得知莱姆斯（Lemus）的指控后立即从Foppoli调查中撤回了自己和她的办公室。加利福尼亚总检察长办公室接管了此案，埃西克将其描述为调查中的活跃伙伴。

他说：“我们和加利福尼亚司法部也是专门的资源。”

加利福尼亚的竞选财务监管机构加利福尼亚公平政治实践委员会也有两个开放探针抱怨Foppoli过去的政治支出。

On Wednesday morning, a man who would not give his name arrived at the residence during the search and told The Press Democrat he had been living in the home with his mother for the past month. They paid rent to Foppoli, he said.

这mother, who briefly spoke to a reporter on the phone, said that Foppoli was in Italy and had told her he would be there for a “couple of months.”

Foppoli的家族拥有一千历史的城堡75 miles northeast of Milan in the town of Mazzo de Valtellini. He bought the property, named Castello Foppoli, after it went up for sale about five years ago, he previously told The Press Democrat.

埃西克（Essick）说，他不知道Foppoli的下落。他说：“在这一点上，没有什么可以禁止他离开该国旅行。”

Law enforcement officials viewed the Windsor house as Foppoli’s home and said he maintained a bedroom and personal property there.

Foppoli was in the Bay Area as recently as Aug. 22, when he posted a photo on his personal Facebook page and marked his location as the Oakland Coliseum.

这April 2 sexual battery棕榈滩警方发言人威尔·罗斯罗克（Will Rothrock）说，亚伯拉罕向棕榈滩警察局提交的针对福普波利的报告仍受到该机构侦探局的积极调查。

罗斯罗克（Rothrock）拒绝提供有关该调查状况的更多详细信息，包括有关该侦探是否已发布任何搜查令或与该案有关的人的范围的信息。

罗斯罗克说，目前尚不清楚侦探对亚伯拉罕报告的调查需要多长时间。

罗斯罗克说：“我没有约会或时间范围。”“我什至不能坐在这里说‘它将很快或很长。’”

Wednesday’s search was not the first time law enforcement visited Foppoli’s home in recent weeks. On Oct. 13, sheriff’s deputies responded to a 911 call after residents of the house reported their roommate unresponsive.

瓦伦西亚此前告诉新闻民主党人，第一响应者发现一名居民死亡，这似乎是可能的药物过量。一位代理在这位30岁死人的卧室中发现了毒品用具，死亡并不可疑。

Foppoli is not a subject of the investigation and was not at home at the time of the death, Valencia said. Wednesday’s search had no connection to that incident, he said.

Foppoli的家位于温莎市中心南部。房地产网站将该物业列为四居室房屋，而Foppoli在2020年6月在办公室期间披露其金融资产的公平市场价值将其公平市场价值低于100万美元。

该房屋在《纪事报》的初步调查中发挥了作用，该报纸报道说，富波利经常在他的酿酒厂向实习生和志愿者租用卧室，这归功于五个前租户。Foppoli的一位前实习生Christopher Creek酿酒厂告诉《纪事报》，当他住在当时的马约尔家时，他的房东和老板迫使他邀请他参加酿酒厂的派对。其中一名妇女指责前市长袭击。

员工作家艾米丽·怀尔德（Emily Wilder）为这份报告做出了贡献。

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