Former MPD officer begins jail sentence
June 17, 2009
A former Marysville police officer began serving a 90-day jail sentence Wednesday for ordering a body cavity search of a female drug suspect on a city street.
Joshua Hendrickson was taken into custody and booked into Yuba County Jail following an 11 a.m. appearance before Judge Julia Scrogin.
Despite being a former officer, Hendrickson will serve the sentence in the local jail instead of being transferred to another county, said Sheriff’s Department spokeswoman Melanie Oakes.
“He will be segregated from the general population, but I don’t have any further information on his housing situation in the jail,” said Oakes.
Hendrickson will not serve the sentence at a work release program, said the prosecutor in the case, Deputy District Attorney Shiloh Sorbello.
Scrogin sentenced Hendrickson in October but stayed the sentence while he appealed to a panel of Yuba County judges. The appeal was rejected.
Yuba County jurors found Hendrickson guilty of the misdemeanor offense in July. The search occurred during January 2008.
Hendrickson’s attorney during the appeal process, Daniel McNamara of Sacramento, said Scrogin did not address terms of the jail sentence at Wednesday’s hearing. It’s up to Sheriff Steve Durfor whether Hendrickson will be eligible to perform community service under an alternative work program, or whether he will be eligible for a work furlough program that would have him spending nights in jail, according to McNamara.
Hendrickson ordered Officer Amy Alfred to put on latex gloves and search the suspect, Stacy Michelle May, who did not have any drugs.
Alfred was sentenced to 30 days in jail but has filed an appeal with the same panel of county judges. Both she and Hendrickson were fired from the Police Department.
