Sedona AZ (April 9, 2014) – On Tuesday, April 8, 2014, a staff member of the Coconino County Detention Facility spoke with an adult female inmate who informed him that a detention officer was engaging in inappropriate conduct of a sexual nature with her. This information was given to the Coconino County Sheriff’s Office Criminal Investigation division and an internal affairs investigation was initiated.
The CCSO contacted the Flagstaff Police Department and requested it conduct the criminal investigation of the offense. As a result of the Flagstaff Police detectives investigation, 50 year-old Pete C. Gomez of Flagstaff, Arizona, a Detention Officer II with the agency, was arrested for the offense of one count of Arizona Revised Statute 13-1419A (Unlawful Sexual Conduct in a Correctional Facility).
Gomez has been employed at the Flagstaff detention facility for five years.
Gomez is on administrative leave as the internal investigation is continued by CCSO detectives. Flagstaff Police detectives are continuing the criminal investigation.
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