Welcome to L.A. TACO’s weekly Investigations Newsletter. I’m Lexis-Olivier Ray, the Head of Investigations for L.A. TACO. This is what we're looking into this week.
One early-November morning in 2023, former Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Deputy Francisco Sosa was working patrol when he noticed a woman’s car broken down in the middle of the roadway. Sosa pulled up behind the woman and activated his rear lights while the woman was changing her tire.
The two briefly engaged in a "flirtatious" conversation during which Sosa “complimented her appearance and asked if she was married,” according to a report from the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) reviewed by L.A. TACO. At some point in that first interaction, Sosa showed the woman a photograph “of his exposed penis.”