Former deputy of the sheriff in Ventura County renounces the license, cannot serve as a policeman in the state

Tyler Ebell, the former deputy of the sheriff in Ventura County, who was fired because he had an adventure with a prison prisoner, will no longer work as an law officer in California.

Ebell left the Ventura County Sheriff’s office at the end of 2022 after ended an investigation into internal affairs that he “committed repeated acts of improper conduct and rapidly violated the basic mains of a law application” when he followed and then continued a sexual relationship with Nastaza Schmidt in Ventura, who was imprisoned worked in 2020 and 2021.

The sheriff’s office sent the case to the California Commission for standards and training of peace officers, or post, and earlier this month, Ebell volunteered certification with the Agency.

By teaching his certification as a peace officer, Ebell gave up the right of any hearings before the job. The action came into effect on February 6, according to Post The online list of disciplinary actions. Is not reversible.

Without this certification, he can no longer work as a sworn officer in any California police agency. It will also make it difficult, perhaps impossible, for him to work as an officer in other states.

California shares its list of former officer officers with each other state, through a non -profit group called the International Association of Liginal and Training Standards.

Some states, including California, have laws against hiring anyone who appears on the national group detectification index. In other states, there is no blanket prohibition, but anyone on the list due to incorrect conduct is very unlikely to be employed by a police agency, said Brian Grisham, the deputy director of the National Standards and Training Organization.

Apart from losing his job, the loss of his peace officer’s certification was the greatest consequence for Ebell.

Last year, Ventura County agreed to pay a little below $ 50,000 to settle a federal civil rights, submitted by Schmidt and another woman in 2023. The trial accused Ebell of harassing and watched women and forced to constrain -On Schmidt in a relationship, promising that it will be to promise women help them with his criminal accusations.

The agreement issued both Ebell and the county from any responsibility, but was paid entirely by the county. Neither Ebell nor the county admitted any crime, and in the judicial documents, Ebell did not deny the accusations in the trial.

Ebell did not respond to a comment request. In his interviews with 2022 internal business investigators, he initially denied an adventure with Schmidt. Eventually, he acknowledged it, when the investigators faced their evidence.

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He helped him arrest her and save her

Schmidt died On February 28, 2023, at the age of 34. Her body was found that morning on the front lawn of a house in Thousand Oaks; The sheriff’s detectives said he ran away from a nearby self-deposition facility, after she and two men were caught trying to break one of the units.

The office of the medical examiner of Ventura County concluded that he died due to the “probably cardiac arrest” and had a potentially lethal amount of methamphetamine in her system.

In September 2020, Schmidt was removed a little more than a year from a two-year Stint in the state prison, when it was arrested again in Ventura County. Ebell was one of the arrest officers. She has been accused of identity theft, holding drug parafernal and holding burglary tools.

Ebell started working in prison as a senior deputy two months after Schmidt was arrested. They did not start a physical adventure until it was released, she told internal business investigators.

But, while he was in prison, Ebell flirted and fraternized with her, and brought food, books and jewelry, put money in the prison account and spoke on the phone with her for more than 100 hours, according to the internal business report that led to his dismissal.

Schmidt spent almost a year in prison waiting for the trial before his grandparents saved – with the help of Ebell, who acknowledged to investigators he gave the grandparents of Schmidt $ 5,000 in cash so he could show enough assets to a company. bond bonds to ensure their release. On the day of launch, in August 2021, Ebell raised it from the main prison in Ventura and led to a nearby bar.

Once Schmidt came out of prison, she and Ebell were together for a few months. A colleague held and Schmidt’s friend told investigators that their relationship was “mutual”. But in his trial, Schmidt claimed that he “subject” only to Ebell’s advances “because of his position of authority and his threats to damage his case and/or send back to prison, if not.

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“He will never be a policeman again”

Ebell and Schmidt were discovered in December 2021, when two deputies of the sheriff outside the service recognized them together at a restaurant in Ventura. Ebell was placed on leave a few weeks later, after the internal business investigation began.

Ebell, 41 years ago, was partly recognized because he was famous as a teenager, when he was one of the largest football players in high school In Ventura County History. In 2000, his senior year at Ventura High School, set a national record for short site sites, and he continued to play in UCLA and in the Canadian football league.

Ron Bamieh, a lawyer who represented Schmidt in the civil trial, said he believes that Ebell should face criminal charges for his conduct.

“He will never be a policeman again, but the guy has made many damages to many people and sadly,” Bamieh said.

In 2023, a spokesman for the Sheriff’s office told The Star that there is an active criminal investigation on EBell. This investigation has never been sent to the Office of the District Lawyer for potential pursuit, said Paul Nuñez, deputy lawyer of Ventura County District.

Bamieh asked for immunity on Schmidt’s open criminal causes in exchange for his participation, Nuñez said.

“Because of the serious nature of these cases, our office was not able to grant these requests at the time,” Nuñez said.

Tony Biasotti is a reporter of investigation and guard for the star of Ventura County. Reach him at [email protected]. This story was possible through a subsidy from the Fund of the Ventura County Community Foundation to support local journalism.

This article originally appeared on the Ventura County Star: The deputy of former Sheriff, Ebell, teach peace officers license