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Wednesday, January 13, 2021

To Serve and Steal

A former Orange County sheriff’s deputy pleaded guilty Friday to a criminal charge connected to a 2018 incident in which she took a suspect’s credit card during her training, prosecutors said. 

Angelina Cortez, 41, entered the plea on one misdemeanor count of filing a false police report. The crime was originally charged as a felony, but an O.C. Superior Court judge reduced the charge Friday despite prosecutors’ objection, the O.C. District Attorney’s Office said in a news release.