Former college police chief faces charges
According to the Associated Press, a former college police chief is facing criminal charges steming from his alleged on-duty conduct:
RIVERSIDE -- A former police chief at a Riverside County college has been charged with 10 counts including bribery, perjury and destroying or concealing evidence.
Kevin Segawa, who was police chief for Mt. San Jacinto Community College for about four years, turned himself in Wednesday.
The college says the 39-year-old has been on paid administrative leave since July.
Prosecutors say Segawa took gifts from Morgan McComas, who owns Pirot's Towing, in exchange for sending most of the vehicles towed on campus to McComas' company.
Segawa is accused of arresting an undocumented immigrant who had an ice cream cart, taking his ice cream and not filing an arrest report. The man was deported.
Segawa is also charged with destroying evidence involving the arrest of a college
employee.
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Segawa came to Antelope Valley College to speak on the behalf of Mark Snyder(ex-LAPD)for the interm-chief of police position. Segawa told the Board of Trustees that you must have the "best of the best" for police officers. Now he is in jail and charged with 10 counts,I guess that he and Mark Snyder are the "best of the best" from LAPD.