Complaint Review: US Extradition Services Inc. Gordon Brooks - David Dukes - Austin Texas

   I WAS CONSIDERING WORKING HERE BECAUSE I SPEAK SPANISH AND I HEARD THAT THEY WERE NEEDING TRANSPORT OFFICERS WHO SPEAK SPANISH. IT IS BECOMING A MAJOR LANGUAGE AROUND HERE AND IT WOULD BE RATHER IMPORTANT TO UNDERSTAND THEM IF THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT ESCAPING, KILLING YOU OR SOMETHING SIMILIAR...

   THESE GUYS ARE SO DAMNED MACHO THEY DO NOT WANT TO LOWER THEMSELVES TO HIRING WOMEN AND IF THEY DID HIRE WOMEN TO TRANSPORT OTHER WOMEN, IT IS DOUBTFUL THEY WOULD BE ACCUSED OF RAPE AND BEING SUED -- OR THE LIKELIHOOD WOULD BE LESS....

    I AM COMMISSIONED AS A SECURITY OFFICER AND HAVE SOME LAW ENFORCEMENT AND CORRECTIONS TRAINING AS WELL.... NO WAY AM I WORKING FOR THESE GUYS IF WHAT YOU SAY IS TRUE AND CONSIDERING HOW THINGS ARE IN AUSTIN, TEXAS, I DO NOT NEED TO BE TAINTED WITH YET ANOTHER BAD SECURITY COMPANY!

    THANKS FOR LETTING ME KNOW WHAT I WOULD BE IN FOR IF I DID WORK FOR THEM.

    BOUNCING CHECKS ARE BAD FOR ME...

     YOU CAN CALL THE PAY DAY LAW PEOPLE AT THE WORKSOURCE CENTER IF THEY DO NOT PAY YOU, YOU KNOW... THEY DO NOT WANT YOU TO KNOW YOUR RIGHTS. WE DON'T HAVE MAN Y HERE IN TEXAS BUT YOU BETTER KNOW WHAT THEY ARE.

June 18, 2009 Santa Barbara Independent



Authorities believe two men working for a contracted prisoner

transportation company forced a female inmate to perform sexual acts on

them, while returning her to Santa Barbara County Jail in October of

last year. According to court records, Roland Ygelsias, 29, is facing a

felony count of forcible copulation, a violent and serious felony.

Prosecutors allege he forced a female inmate to give him oral sex during

a trip transporting prisoners throughout California, while in a van with

seven inmates in it, both male and female. Ygelsias, along with

28-year-old Miguel Jacobo, is also facing a misdemeanor count of sexual

activity in a detention facility with a consenting adult who is

confined. The two worked for U.S. Extradition Services, a company that

contracted with the Santa Barbara County Sheriffs Department to

transport inmates among prisons and jails. Ygelsias picked up the victim

and one other prisoner at Chowchilla State Prison, according to a report

from Santa Barbara Sheriffs Detective Michael Scherbarth. From there,

the van traveled to Jacobos sisters residence to pick up Jacobo. The

woman told Scherbarth that not long after, Jacobo was looking at her and

smiling, while Ygelsias made comments about her sitting on his lap,

which made her feel uncomfortable. Along the way, more stops were made

and more inmates picked up. After Ygelsias drove for awhile, according

to the victim, he said he wanted to take a nap, and sat next to her in

the first bench-row of the van. Then he said he wanted to switch sides,

and he lifted her up onto and over his lap, according to Scherbarths

report. Ygelsias then began to tug at her gown and proceeded to tell

her he was a federal agent and that he could do things to her,

Scherbarth wrote, saying the man then unzipped his pants and felt the

womans leg. He then allegedly pushed her head down onto his lap and

pulled on her hair, violent in his actions, and told her, Youre

going to catch this all in your mouth. The woman told authorities the

mans p***s went into her mouth, he ejaculated, and she had to spit the

fluid into her gown. Every time she tried to lift her head up off of

his p***s he would grab her hair and pull her head down violently,

Scherbarth said in his report. This all occurred during the drive

somewhere near San Diego, she claimed. Ygelsiass version of events, as

told to detectives who interviewed him, was that he took four Ambien

sleeping pills to fall asleep. He remembered waking up at one point and

the victim was performing oral sex on him, Scherbarth wrote. The

defendant explained that he wasnt able to do anything about it, or even

completely wake up, because of the pills. He told the detectives he was

embarrassed, ashamed, and scared of what had happened. Contrary to the

victims claims, he said he never exposed himself and never touched the

victim. However, a Sheriffs detective pointed out that it would have

been difficult for the woman to undo Ygelsiass pants herself, because

he was wearing his duty belt at the time. The alleged victim said that

although nobody talked about what had happened, she believed everyone

knew. But most of the witnesses either couldnt be tracked down by

detectives, or reported that they didnt see anything. A couple of

witnesses said they did see the victims head go down into Ygelsiass

lap, but didnt witness any sexual interaction. They and TK said the

contact appeared consensual. Jacobo told detectives he heard about

Ygelsias and the victim after the fact, from one of the inmates. Jocobo

denied that he himself had any physical contact with the woman, who

claimed he made her m********e him. Jacobo claimed he drove the entire

time while Ygelsias, whom he had never worked with prior to this trip,

slept. Another agent reportedly told detectives that he knew Jacobo was

easily manipulated and he very well could have got caught up in the

moment, seen Ygelsias get a blow job, and think to himself that he

could do the same thing. The agent said Jacobo told him he got a hand

job from the victim, but after being confronted by the agent, said he

was just joking. The victim told Scherbarth she consented to Ygelsias

touching her legs and penetrating her vagina with his fingers, but that

she was not okay with the oral sex and that he forced her to do that.

Ygelsias and Jacobo were relatively new employees, having worked for

U.S. Extradition Services for less than six months. Ygelsias was fired

after the incident, while Jacobo resigned in the face of termination,

according to Bill Brees, director of marketing and operations support

for the company. Its not the type of publicity you want to see when

youre providing a service, Brees said. It has a negative effect on

everyone. It is company policy that agents, who are usually armed, not

ride in the back of the van. Its not cost-effective for law enforcement

agencies to transport inmates, so companies like U.S. Extradition

Services are contracted to do the work. The Sheriffs Department dropped

U.S. Extradition, and now works with another company, Court Services

Transport, according to department spokesperson Drew Sugars. The

department primarily uses the Los Angeles County Sheriffs Department

Statewide Transport at a rate of 68 cents a mile. If that service is

unavailable, or cant meet a deadline for pickup, the Sheriff contracts

with Court Services Transport at a cost of 95 cents a mile. Ygelsiass

attorney didnt return a call seeking comment, and The Independents

efforts to locate Ygelsias for comment were unsuccessful. Jacobo, after

initially returning The Independent's phone calls, could not be reached

for comment. Senior deputy district attorney Joyce Dudley, who is

prosecuting the case, didn't have any comment on the case except to say

the preliminary hearing was set to begin June 26.