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jakeXT

(10,575 posts)
Wed Jan 14, 2015, 07:39 AM Jan 2015

Nightmare: Cop Stalks Woman, Has Her Committed When She Rejects Him

A police officer infatuated with a young woman he met during a landlord-tenant dispute tried to have her committed after she rejected his attentions, a lawsuit filed in Miami-Dade County claims.

In her complaint, Kirenia Cardidad Figuera says she met Officer Joshua Zacharias when he responded to a domestic dispute call at her mother's apartment. Figuera says at the time, both she and her sister lived with her mother, but neither contributed money toward the living expenses in the home.

During the investigation that followed, Zacharias allegedly told Figuera that because she'd lived in her mother's home for more than 24 hours, the conflict amounted to a landlord-tenants dispute, and that she'd have to find somewhere else to live.
Figuera says she and her sister gladly accepted Zacharias offer to help them move to a new apartment the next day, but from virtually that time on, her interaction with the officer took a disturbing turn.

At the time, the young woman says, she had only recently broken up with her boyfriend of six years, and they were still trying to work out their issues. While Zacharias was still at the apartment, Figuera invited her ex over to see the new place.

By then, she says, Zacharias had overstayed his welcome, and when her ex-boyfriend did indeed arrive at the apartment, "Zacharias began yelling uncontrollably at him." Moments later, Zacharias allegedly escalated the confrontation by pulling a gun on the ex-boyfriend and chasing him from the premises.

http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/filthy-dirty-rotten-stinking-hotel-fines-couple-leaving-bad-review

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Nightmare: Cop Stalks Woman, Has Her Committed When She Rejects Him (Original Post) jakeXT Jan 2015 OP
And now, of course, he will still be out there - vengeful. Angry. Embarrassed. djean111 Jan 2015 #1
If that happened in my county the cop would probably maintain his job, Baitball Blogger Jan 2015 #2
this asshole has a gun, and the power of the state behind him. wonder how many other niyad Jan 2015 #3
 

djean111

(14,255 posts)
1. And now, of course, he will still be out there - vengeful. Angry. Embarrassed.
Wed Jan 14, 2015, 10:18 AM
Jan 2015

With a gun. And the power of the police.

Baitball Blogger

(46,682 posts)
2. If that happened in my county the cop would probably maintain his job,
Wed Jan 14, 2015, 11:33 AM
Jan 2015

and the young woman would be offered the expenses to be relocate outside the county.

Insular communities think that way.

niyad

(113,055 posts)
3. this asshole has a gun, and the power of the state behind him. wonder how many other
Wed Jan 14, 2015, 12:26 PM
Jan 2015

women he has pursued and harassed, or worse.

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