ORANGE COUNTY
Deputy involved in beating death probe leaves agency
A fifth Orange County Sheriff's Department employee named in a grand jury investigation into the 2006 beating death of an inmate at the county's largest jail left the department Tuesday, a sheriff's official said.
Deputy Jason Chapluk, who was on duty at the Theo Lacy Jail in Orange when inmate John Derek Chamberlain was beaten to death, was placed on administrative leave April 7, the day the grand jury transcript was released.
Chapluk's last day at the department was Tuesday, said sheriff's spokesman John McDonald. Chapluk had been with the department since February 2005. Because of a state law that restricts the release of peace officer disciplinary records, McDonald declined to say whether Chapluk had resigned or was fired.
The grand jury found that on Oct. 5, 2006, while one of the jail's ranking guards exchanged personal text messages and watched the television show "Cops," Chamberlain, a 41-year-old computer technician from Mission Viejo, was stomped and beaten to death nearby.
Chapluk told the grand jury it was not uncommon to hear stories about guards playing video games during work hours and sleeping during late-night shifts, and that they had a radio code of "10-12" to warn each other when supervisors were coming. Testimony showed Chapluk brought movies to work.
-- Tami Abdollah CONTRA COSTA COUNTY
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-briefs21-2009jan21,0,671362.story
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