A Los Angeles Police Department officer and a former officer -- twin sisters who already faced criminal charges in Los Angeles -- face additional charges for allegedly running a bail bond company without a license, officials said.
Lisa and Teresa Golt, 33, were arrested Friday at their Garden Grove home and their brother, David, 39, was arrested later the same day when he tried to bail someone out of the Orange County Women's Jail, said Jim Amormino, spokesman for the Orange County Sheriff's Department.
Tuesday, the siblings' arraignment was postponed until Jan. 4 in Orange County Superior Court, Amormino said.
David Golt is a licensed bail bondsman and allegedly allowed his sisters to use the license, Amormino said. The crime is a felony.
The Golt twins were also arrested in Los Angeles in October on suspicion of acting without a bail-bond license and making use of confidential law enforcement data. Both pleaded not guilty and were free on their own recognizance until their Friday arrests.
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Lisa Golt won widespread attention in January 1999 when she spearheaded a campaign to encourage LAPD officers to sign written instructions barring Police Chief Bernard C. Parks from attending their funeral if they were killed in the line of duty. "I don't want somebody I don't respect at my funeral," she said at the time.
Lisa Golt was fired in October 1999 after being found guilty in an internal LAPD disciplinary proceeding of being involved in the bail bond business while off duty, spraying someone with pepper spray while off duty and failing to notify the department of use of force. She is appealing the dismissal.
Teresa Golt, who has also been publicly critical of what she viewed as Parks' heavy-handed approach to discipline, has been reassigned to an administrative position in the LAPD while awaiting a disciplinary hearing on 10 internal charges filed with the city's Police Commission in July. Allegations include working off duty as a bail bonder, acting as a bail agent without a proper license, making false and misleading statements to department supervisors and using department computer systems for personal reasons.
Defense attorney John Barnett has questioned the actions taken by the LAPD against two sisters, charging they might be retaliatory. Barnett did not immediately respond to a message left at his office early Wednesday seeking comment on the new charges.
The twins and their brother had their bail reduced Tuesday in Santa Ana from $100,000 to $50,000. All three remain in custody, a jail warden said late Tuesday night.<
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