Ex-Alameda deputy can no longer work as California officer after Santa Rita Jail feces attack
The windows on the cell doors are being widened in Santa Rita Jails special management units to add more natural light and to provide a better view for deputies conducting observation checks. Photo: Alameda County Sheriff
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A former Alameda County sheriff's deputy is on California's police officer decertification list after she was convicted of orchestrating a feces-throwing attack against a man incarcerated at Santa Rita Jail.
Sarah Krause was listed on the Commission of Peace Officer Standards, or POST's, decertification list on Oct. 7. As of Friday, she was one of 381 officers up for decertification, which means, if approved by commissioners, they can no longer work as law enforcement anywhere in the state.
California enacted this law in January 2023.
Krause, who hasn't worked for the sheriff since 2018, and her former colleague, ex-deputy Stephen Sarcos, pleaded guilty in 2020 to being part of an attack on Fernando Miguel Soria, who they thought was disrespectful to Krause in 2016.
Krause pushed the button from a control room to open the cell door in Housing Unit 1, F-Pod and Sarcos then escorted a man, who was carrying two cups filled with his own feces and urine, upstairs to Soria's cell, according to testimony at court hearings.
The second door was opened, and the man threw his cups of feces and urine into the cell, then shut the door.
After the allegations came to light, Kraus was fired and Sarcos quit his job.
In addition to Sarcos and Krause, two other deputies also were arrested on similar charges.
Of the four, Krause's name was the only one on the decertification list.
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Other names on the POST decertification list, some of which include temporary suspensions, include:
- Tyrone C. E. Davis, who no longer works for the East Bay Regional Park District police following a 2019 conviction for grand theft by embezzlement.
- Former San Jose police officer Timothy Hackney, who was charged with felony domestic violence.
- California Department of Cannabis Control officer Corey Harris, who was charged with conspiracy to traffic firearms, according to Gangaprenuer.
- Former Daly City police officer Jacob Fine, who is facing child abuse and firearm charges.
- Former San Francisco police officer Michael Herrera, convicted of sexual battery after groping a woman in the Marina.
- Former Oakland police officer Travis Leon, who was written up for dishonesty.