UPDATE: The Sheriff’s Office has initiated its Officer Involved Protocol after the subject in this case, identified as Jaime Rodriguez, 50, of Fairfield was declared deceased at a local hospital following the incident.
ORIGINAL STORY:
A 50-year-old Fairfield man arrested in Danville for attempting to contact a minor boy for sex attempted to hang himself while being transported to the Martinez Detention Facility Tuesday.
The incident occurred at 10:33 a.m. after a man arrested by Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) task force officers made the attempt during his transport to jail.
A sheriff’s office spokesman said Investigators went to the Danville home to arrest the suspect for soliciting a detective posing online as a 13-year-old boy for sex. The suspect was arrested for arranging a meeting with a minor for lewd purposes (PC 288.4(b)), contacting a minor to commit a felony (PC 288.3(a)), attempted lewd acts on a child (PC 664/288(a)), attempted sending harmful material to seduce a minor (PC 664/288.2(a)(1), and resisting arrest (PC 148).
Medical aid was rendered, according to the Office of the Sheriff, and the suspect was transported to a local hospital.
His name was not provided.
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Y’all have tons of nasty things to say about children evading BART fares but nothing about this sad sack of excrement from Danville? Crazy.
He’s not from Danville.
What is wrong with you? A lot of these “children” you mention are young adults who are out preying on people. Committing felonies.
Really Daniel?? They were 13-14 years old and there were no felonies being committed. If they were white you would call them “babies.” So strange that people in this community have more hatred for black teenagers being teenagers than literal pedophiles. It’s sick.
The loser couldn’t even get that right.
A short drop and a sudden stop
Good riddance