Kings County Sheriff's sergeant arrested and booked on domestic violence charges

KINGS COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- A Kings County Sheriff's lawman was connected the different broadside of the instrumentality connected Wednesday, aft Lemoore Police arrested and booked 34-year-old Juan Antonio Ruiz connected home unit charges.

Lemoore Police Department and the Kings County Sheriff's Office declined an interrogation with Action News.

The sheriff's bureau confirms Ruiz is simply a sergeant and was placed connected administrative leave, pending their interior affairs investigation.

The Lemoore Police Department is besides conducting its investigation.

They accidental per protocol, Ruiz was booked into his workplace, the lone jailhouse successful Kings County.

The Kings County District Attorney, Sarah Hacker, says she can't remark connected the lawsuit but shared, "Our instrumentality enforcement is held to a higher modular due to the fact that they are the ones enforcing the instrumentality and our nationalist trusts them to behaviour a mode that is accordant with complying with the law."

Those standards are acceptable by the Commission connected Peace Officer Standards and Training.

"If they interruption that standard, determination are consequences, and portion of that is with their certification of their licence to beryllium a constabulary officer; portion of that tin beryllium transgression consequences. Another portion of that is, it affects their credibility arsenic an serviceman erstwhile they travel and attest successful court," Hacker explains.

Hacker adds that home unit cases are taken precise seriously, but their investigations tin contiguous challenges.

"Oftentimes, we don't person witnesses to these types of events. All we see, oregon each we perceive about, is the 9-1-1 telephone oregon the injuries that 1 of the radical person suffered during this benignant of event. Domestic unit cases bash contiguous their ain challenges."

Hacker continues, "We arsenic a assemblage request to basal up against it and instrumentality nary tolerance towards these types of actions."

The Lemoore Police Department says it could instrumentality days, weeks, oregon adjacent months to record due charges, depending connected wherever their probe and witnesser interviews lead.

Once an archetypal study is submitted to the District Attorney's office, they volition reappraisal it and finalize due charges.

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