Mugshot: Oakland officer booked in Bay Area sex scandal
Brian Bunton
An Oakland police officer arrested in connection with the department's sex scandal, was booked Tuesday night into the Santa Rita Jail.
Brian Bunton posted $12,500 bail, and was released from jail.
Bunton was arraigned last Friday, on obstruction of justice and engaging in prostitution.
Prosecutors accuse him of exchanging sex for tipping off teenage sex worker, 19-year-old Celeste Guap, of police prostitution stings.
Guap, whose real name is Jasmine Abuslin, claims she was involved with dozens of Bay Area police officers, with some of the incidents happening when she was underage.
Abuslin returned home to the Bay Area after going to a rehab center in Florida. According to her attorneys Abuslin was persuaded to go to Florida by police. Attorney Bonner says Abuslin claims she's not a drug addict although she has dabbled in drugs. They told her "it would be like a vacation, she needed to go to rehab - she had a drug problem - this would be the best place to go. It would be like a vacation," said Civil rights attorney Pamela Price of Oakland.
She returned home earlier this month.
As Abuslin returned home, her attorneys spoke, "Jasmine is safe and she expresses her sincere thanks and gratitude to not only the people in the Bay Area, but to the people across the country and the world who have offered their prayers, support and compassion as she transcends this ordeal. She is a new lady and is committed to a new course of conduct."
Attorney Bonner said Abuslin would receive major psychiatric treatment under the direction of Dr. David Spiegal, the head psychiatrist at Stanford. Bonner adds Abuslin will go to school to get her GED adding "she's a very smart lady. She spells every word in the dictionary correctly." She hopes to become a veterinarian.
Abuslin wants the spotlight to be kept on the officers who were "engaging in a criminal enterprise," according to her attorneys.