terminal disposition,<\/a> which meant no probation and no jail time, said his attorney, David Borsari. Under this type of sentencing, the defendant could be required to do community service and attend a program.<\/p>\nDuring the 2021 traffic stop in Whittier, Peel detained and intimidated his co-worker by ordering him to pull over while activating red-and-blue police lights on an unmarked vehicle, according to the criminal complaint.<\/p>\n
Peel also admonished the victim for not pulling over fast enough and warned him about a taillight, Venusse Dunn, also a spokesperson for the DA\u2019s Office, has said.<\/p>\n
Peel was dressed in his fire uniform and wasn\u2019t armed, Borsari said in a statement last year: \u201cMr. Peel never attempted to issue a citation to or arrest the employee, however, during the encounter the employee has stated he did not feel free to leave.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Los Angeles County Sheriff\u2019s Department arrested Peel on Jan. 27, 2022, after serving a search warrant at his home in the 15000 block of Danbrook Drive in Whittier. The DA\u2019s Office filed charges against Peel in 2024.<\/p>\n
Peel wrote an apology letter to the victim and wrote a promise to not seek future employment as a firefighter under penalty of perjury, Deputy District Attorney Casey Higgins said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have no idea why Peel did what he did,\u201d the deputy DA said. \u201cI speculate he had a hero complex where he wanted to be a cop.\u201d<\/p>\n
The red and blue lights used by Peel were from a private company that provides them for La Habra Heights vehicles, he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The case against a former La Habra Heights deputy fire chief who impersonated an officer when he pulled…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":512709,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,356,4219,5295,2961,229117,224,6080,5337,50,5292,10100,52],"class_list":{"0":"post-512708","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-courts","11":"tag-crime","12":"tag-crime-and-public-safety","13":"tag-la","14":"tag-la-habra-heights","15":"tag-los-angeles","16":"tag-los-angeles-county","17":"tag-losangeles","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-public-safety","20":"tag-san-gabriel-valley","21":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115886791282867713","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=512708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/512709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=512708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}