Orange County sheriff's worker sought assault on jail inmate, officials say
Lissa Marie Domanic faces charges of soliciting someone to commit a violent crime and providing confidential police records to unauthorized people. The attack did not take place.
A civilian employee with the Orange County Sheriff's Department who allegedly had ties to a white supremacist gang has been indicted on charges of soliciting someone to commit a violent crime and providing confidential police records to unauthorized people, a sheriff's spokesman said today.
Lissa Marie Domanic, 42, was working as an office specialist and 911 call taker when she allegedly asked someone to assault an Orange County jail inmate, said Jim Amormino, a sheriff's spokesman. She also used department computers to access confidential records that she forwarded to unauthorized people, Amormino said.
A grand jury indicted Domanic on the felony charges earlier this week, and she is awaiting arraignment in Orange County Superior Court. Domanic, who worked for the sheriff's department for about 19 months, has been placed on administrative leave pending a disciplinary review, Amormino said.
"We do a thorough background investigation, and nothing came up in her background," Amormino said. "Sometimes people are able to conceal things they are involved in."
Sheriff's investigators began looking at Domanic in May after receiving a tip about her from another law enforcement agency, Amormino said. Among the things she's accused of is asking one inmate to assault another inmate and using department records to identify the housing location of the intended victim, Amormino said. The assault did not occur, he said.
When sheriff's investigators arrested Domanic at her Yorba Linda home earlier this week, she was under the influence of a controlled substance and in possession of methamphetamine, Amormino said.
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