An Alameda County sheriff’s deputy who already was charged
with misdemeanor child molestation was arrested on Saturday night for allegedly
hitting a man during a drunken altercation on a boat in Alameda’s Marina Village
area, police said.
Jason Deitschman, 49, of Castro Valley, was arrested on
suspicion of misdemeanor battery and public intoxication for the altercation at
about 11:15 p.m. Saturday, according to Alameda police Lt. Hosh Durani.
Officers responded to the boat after the victim called
police to report that a man, later identified as Deitschman, was on his boat and
had hit him, Durani said.
Suspects who are arrested for misdemeanor offenses normally
are cited and released at the scene, but Deitschman was so intoxicated that officers
took him to Santa Rita Jail in Dublin so he could be held there until he sobered
up, according to Durani.
Deitschman, a nine-year sheriff’s veteran who worked as a
patrol deputy out of the Eden Township substation in San Leandro, was
previously charged with one misdemeanor count of annoying or molesting a minor
for allegedly sending sexual text messages to a 15-year-old girl and inappropriately
touching her.
Sheriff’s spokesman Sgt. Ray Kelly said Monday that
Deitschman has been on paid administrative leave since he was arrested last
year.
Kelly said sheriff’s officials already were investigating Deitschman
for the allegations last year and are aware of his arrest in Alameda on
Saturday.
Source: NBC Bay Area