LAPD officer accused of sharing intimate photos of wife without consent
A Los Angeles police officer is scheduled to be arraigned next week on misdemeanor charges of allegedly distributing "intimate" photos of his wife without her consent.
Brady Lamas, 45, is charged with sex misdemeanor counts of disorderly conduct by distributing multiple private intimate images without consent, according to the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office. He is scheduled to be arraigned Tuesday.
Prosecutors said Lamas shared the images of his wife, who is also an officer, with other people, including other LAPD officers, between December 2021 and January 2022.
The LAPD issued a statement saying it is aware of the charges.
"Lamas has been assigned home since Jan. 31, 2022, pending an internal investigation, stemming from a criminal investigation being investigated by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department," according to the agency.
"The department is fully cooperating with the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the District Attorney's Office with this matter and is troubled by the officer's alleged off-duty conduct which does not reflect the values of the Los Angeles Police Department."
According to the Los Angeles Times, Lamas' wife filed court papers seeking a restraining order against her husband, saying she found explicit photos of her on his phone. She alleged that her husband had nude photos and other explicit videos of her and shared them with a man she didn't know on the messaging app Kik, the Times reported.
"I did not know the photos were taken of me and did not give my consent for any photos of me to be shared with anyone," the woman wrote in the court documents, according to the Times. She said she later discovered that her husband had sent the photos to other men via text message and the WhatsApp messaging service.
"My own husband is a predator and he preyed on me," she wrote in the papers, the Times reported. "I would have preferred that he punched me in the face."
