According to multiple media reports, a former Claremont Police Department officer who resigned at the end of January this year resigned at the end of January this year but was arrested earlier this month.
Gabriel Arellarnes was arrested on March 14 by deputies from the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Specialist Investigation Division, Inland Valley Daily Britain reported.
His arrest was identified only as Jane Doe, seven days after the San Bernardino County District Attorney’s Office indicted him for felony counts of forced oral mating in connection with the February 2024 arrest of a 38-year-old female highlander.
A $20 million federal civil lawsuit was named to Arellarnes, with Claremont and 10 city employees filed by DOE attorneys, according to the Claremont Courier.
The civil lawsuit alleges that shortly before midnight on February 16, 2024, the 38-year-old woman and her child’s father discovered that she was “engaged in romantic activities” in the back seat of a car on Mount Valdi Road, Claremont. According to the lawsuit, the former officer noticed a glass pipe in the vehicle and told the couple to get dressed and get out of the car.
Claremont Police Station cruisers were seen in this undated photo. (CPD)
The interaction led to the arrest of DOE for misdemeanor possession of drug paraphernalia while her companions were left in the car.
Doe was told that she would be taken to the Pomona Police Station to be searched by female police officers as there were no female officers at Claremont Station.
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The 32-year-old former officer is charged in a lawsuit in which he stopped a patrol vehicle several times on his way to Pomona Station, sexually attacking Doe, clutching his body handcuffed to the side of the car, and groping.
After she was searched and released by a female PPD officer, Daily Breaking News reports that she reluctantly accepted a ride to the Montclair Transit Centre from Arelan without money or a car.
The lawsuit further alleges at the transit centre, Arellarnes parked a patrol vehicle in remote and dark areas of the parking lot, roamed the patrol vehicle wearing a firearm, and physically forced the 38-year-old woman to copied him verbally.
Claremont City officials reportedly learned about the charges on March 18, 2024, after the liability claim was filed.
The 32-year-old officer was placed on paid administrative leave and his police authority was suspended for investigation. The Courier reported that Allelons received a full salary of $76,574 11 months before he resigned on January 29th of this year.
The city’s lawyers responded to a civil lawsuit in November 2024. They denied the allegations and requested a trial by a ju trial. The Arellans lawyers in the civil suit sought a ju trial before filing an allegation delaying the civil suit while the possibility of a criminal investigation and criminal court case was pending.
The DOE lawyers have filed a motion against delays in the civil suit, but Judge Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong, who presides over the case, does not appear to be in control of either motion.
Regarding Arelanes, he posted bail the day after his arrest on March 14th and was released. He is scheduled to appear in Rancho Cucamonga Superior Court on April 30th in connection with the felony charges.
If convicted of being charged with being charged at the San Bernardino County DA office, the 32-year-old faces up to eight years in prison and lifetime registration as a sex offender, Daily Breaking News reported.
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