A Yucca Valley woman has filed a federal lawsuit against San Bernardino County alleging false arrest. Reporter David Haldane takes a closer look…
A former Yucca Valley business owner has filed a lawsuit claiming that she was falsely arrested and jailed for seven days in 2014 after an associate accused her of forging a check for more than $52,000.
Lucinda Cox, the 61-year-old former owner of Elite Cosmetology School, claims in the lawsuit—filed against San Bernardino County in Riverside federal court earlier this month—that a sheriff’s detective failed to properly investigate the charge because of a personal relationship with the accuser.
Jeff Joling, captain of the Morongo Basin Sheriff’s station, denied the allegation.
Though the charges against Cox were eventually dropped, she claims in her lawsuit to be suffering from post-traumatic stress syndrome after fearing for her life, being unable to eat or sleep and witnessing violence between other inmates in jail.
The lawsuit seeks unspecified damages for fear, humiliation and emotional injury allegedly caused by the experience.
YUCCA VALLEY WOMAN SUING THE COUNTY FOR FALSE ARREST
