How Celeste Guap, California Teen at Center of Oakland-Cop Prostitution Scandal, Wound Up in a Florida Jail
Celeste Guap claims she was flown to Florida for drug treatment by California police. Now she's in jail on a $300,000 bond.
Celeste Guap/FacebookSomething doesn't sit right about the recent arrest of Celeste Guap, a 19-year-old California woman who's now being held in a southeast-Florida jail. For the past year, Guap* has been central to a controversy involving officers from at least five Bay-Area police agencies, including Oakland, Richmond, and San Francisco. The daughter of an Oakland police dispatcher, Guap claims she had sex with more than two dozen cops—some while she was still under 18—in exchange for cash or protection from prostitution stings. The first officer she claims to have been involved with wound up killing himself last fall.
Last Friday, Guap—a resident of Richmond, California—checked into a residential detox facility in Stuart, Florida, for what her mother described as heroin addiction. Three days later, she was in the Martin County Jail facing felony charges for aggravated battery. Bail was set at $300,000.
Guap and her mother both told the East Bay Express that the drug-treatment was funded through the Richmond Police Department (RPD), an allegation that has raised eyebrows among people following the investigation into Guap's prostitution claims (which include RPD officers). "I'm not saying rehab is a bad idea, but there are rehab programs here," said civil-rights attorney Pamela Price, who is leading a call for the state to take over the investigation from individual agencies involved.
Talking to ABC-7 reporter Dan Noyes, Guap explained that the treatment money came from RPD's victim's compensation fund. "They said it was a paid vacation," Guap told Noyes, "to consider it a paid vacation."
Lieutenant Felix Tan, RPD chief of staff, would not confirm or deny whether the agency was involved with Guap's treatment. "It would be irresponsible and inappropriate for any public agency to comment on anyone's rehabilitation progress," he says. "We are not commenting."
Any investigation into California cops' involvement with Guap may now be hindered by the Florida felony-battery case. According to charging documents, Guap told police Monday that she did not remember anything about the incident that led to her arrest. Guap "stated she blacks out when she gets angry," police reported.
Guap's alleged victim, a detox-center security guard named Joseph Sanders, claimed Guap was getting (verbally) upset with a facility care staffer so he and two other security guards entered the room. At that point, Guap tried to pull a safe off of the room's countertop and, "when the security officers intervened, [Guap] began resisting, starting a physical altercation," according to an arrest affidavit. Guap began "screaming at the employees then lunged at one of the female security officers. Sanders attempted to restrain" Guap, at which point she bit his right forearm.
Security-camera footage of the altercation allegedly backs up Sanders report—except for the biting, which was not caught on video. The sheriff's office has not yet seen the footage, Public Information Officer Christine Weiss said Friday afternoon.
After Guap refused to talk to police Monday, she was handcuffed and placed in the back of a squad car. After slipping out of the handcuffs, Guap began to repeatedly bang her head against the window and was then placed in a police hobble, according to the incident report.
In the Express, Guap's mother wonders why a detox and recovery center would call the police on someone for acting-out in the throes of drug withdrawal. It's a fair question. An aggravated battery charge for this incident also might seem harsh—the charge is supposedly reserved for assault involving a deadly weapon or attacks that cause "great bodily harm, permanent disability, or permanent disfigurement." In Guap's arrest affidavit, officer Michael Trent McCarthy reports that he observed "teeth marks" on Sanders' arm but mentions no bruising or bleeding.
But according to Weiss, aggravated battery is the standard charge in cases that involve biting. Weiss also said that the $300,000 bond was nothing unusual. "We have in Martin County very high bonds."
Weiss added that the department was "not even aware" of Guap's situation in California until it began receiving calls from California media today.
* Not her real name.
Photo Credit: Celeste Guap/Facebook
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Who picked "Guap" as a fake name?
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SAY HER NAME!
This SJW shit is totally fucked up. The woman is a victim of police so you're a scumbag racist if you don't say her name yet ENB, with all her white bitch privilege, goes and gives this poor young woman some made-up nom de victime.
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lol wut
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Git-r-done!
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I'm guessing Gary Johnson must have used her alias, and that's what sent SIV over the edge.
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I think she picked it out for herself...
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When I first saw the story I thought it was a picture of Joe Camel.
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.......................Her?
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Yes, just look, you'll be surprised by the similarity.
Nose, eyes, cleavage, all the same!
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Actually, I was just throwing out some Arrested Development into the mix.
I agree with you. Although, I never associated Joe Camel with "cleavage".
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I know.... Camel toe
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but her cleavage seems such a great match for his snout
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All I see are tits.
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A cheap ass ho with an over inflated ego?
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Guap claims she had sex with more than two dozen cops—some while still under 18
What city hires teen-aged cops?
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I read that the same way. And wouldn't having sex with two dozen cops be a gang bang?
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All I'm getting here is an April O'Neill comparison, which... Swoon.
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Buy a yellow jumpsuit.
Thank me later.
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Paging Sugarfree
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Did you forget they're *teenage* mutant ninja turtles? You sicko. That's someone's mutant ninja child, you know. Jesus.
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There is a whole lot wrong with this.
Drugs are bad, m'kay?
Teenage "girl" gets so black out angry that a rehab facility calls the cops? Would be interesting to know how often that happens.
I know "woman" is technically correct, but I am having trouble seeing her as an adult. A lot of really bad choices here. And her law enforcement "family" took advantage of that.
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"civil-rights attorney Pamela Price, who is leading a call for the state to take over the investigation from individual agencies involved."
Wait, wait, wait...so this case is still in the hands of the police agencies whose employees' behavior is in question?
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Yup.
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It's like the Foxes guarding the Ho House!
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Keep it up and you'll have your own show on FX.
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...Guap's mother wonders why a detox and recovery center would call the police on someone for acting-out in the throes of drug withdrawal.
That would be my question, as well. Perhaps if various police departments are sending patients to the facility, police expect kickbacks from the staff in the form of easy arrests.
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When patients get combative and violent at any health care facility anywhere, police are called. Who do you want them to call, the Ghostbusters?
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In heroin rehab, though? You'd think they'd have a plan for that. Betty Ford handles that shit quietly.
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Patients in opiate withdrawal can get VERY irritable.
It's all a question of what they can do when someone becomes violent. Some facilities are well set up for agitated individuals. Other places might have little option but to call 911 -- and then you get the cops coming.
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The linked article also says this:
It says she "ran outside the front of the facility" and "removed the clothing covering her chest and began flashing passing motorists."
According to an arrest affidavit, the security guard that Abuslin bit was en route to a local hospital.
The affidavit also says "during the entire incident and transport, Abuslin was attempting to solicit sex from deputies". -
I missed that part. And now I'm confused and aroused.
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We're almost eskimo brothers.
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Why do you think any of that is even remotely near the truth?
And the rehab place didn't have a security system preventing people from leaving without staff knowing about it?
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just about all rehab places are voluntary and wouldn't have any sort of system to prevent you from leaving
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But according to Weiss, aggravated battery is the standard charge in cases that involve biting. Weiss also said that the $300,000 bond was nothing unusual. "We have in Martin County very high bonds."
In other words, what are likely unconstitutionally high bonds.
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"Curtis Reeves Jr., the retired Florida police captain charged with killing a fellow movie-goer who was texting in a theater, was released from jail on $150,000 bond Friday over the objections of the victim's wife."
(I said "blast from the past," but actually the case is still going on).
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Lower bail for allegedly killing someone than for pissing off the King's men.
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allegedly killing
Nothing alleged about it. He killed the guy. What is alleged is that he committed a crime. Although the linked news report doesn't help by not naming the crime he's been charged with ("charged with killing", really? did it take a degree from Columbia to learn how to avoid establishing even the most basic facts in your reporting?)
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California, Florida. Either way, it's just up the street.
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The daughter of an Oakland police dispatcher
Sacrifice your own child upon the altar of the prison industrial complex. You can do it.
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Well, I for one am glad we can all sleep at night without that monster roaming the streets. The children are safe once again, saved by our heroic leaders and heroes.
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She sounds like a real keeper.
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Not aging well
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OT:
Thanks to tireless efforts of researchers at my alma mater.
File this along side with salt is bad, fat is bad and high carbs is good, and numerous other incorrect government food guidelines.
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It's especially nice that fatty beef is better for you than lean beef.
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Cut Alaska in two and make Texas the third-biggest state.
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I love the food-porn slide show.
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I approve of this message
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Yeah...the $30k claim is BS.
Here is how they handle a rich white republican in that same county in Florida.
James Crocker, a wealthy white republican business owner (Waterblasting Technologies) in Stuart Florida (Martin County) went onto his neighbor's property in 2012 with a shotgun to kill his neighbor's dog which James Crocker believed had killed his cat. When the neighbor refused to produce the dog for James Crocker to execute, James Crocker fired the shotgun into the ground at his neighbor's feet. The charges (to which he later pleaded) included felony aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, armed trespass, and somewhere in that same time frame was a charge for resisting arrest without violence.
He was arrested on a Thursday and out the next day on $2500.00 bond.
This was ironically at the same time as the Marissa Alexander court debacle which was handed much differently...something about "we have to abide by state mandatory minimums for crimes committed with a firearm."
So yeah, a guy threatens someone else with a firearm, the bond for "aggravated battery" in Martin County is $30,000.00, but felony aggravated assault is $2500.00?
Long past are the days when it was respectable to be a cop in America, and if you are a Florida cop, no one has the delusion that you have a shred of ethics or decency about you. Same for those clowns in the justice system. POS every one of them.
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$300K, not $30K.
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Don't you correct our beloved Larry!
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Well there you go; they are even more full of s.... than I gave them credit for.
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So did the cops pay for her boob job as well?
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So the next scene is a jailhouse suicide?
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Everybody on the whole cell block,
Were ______ing on some jailhouse ______./Alec Baldwin & Match Game 2016
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When I read that I was somewhere that I couldn't laugh out loud, and yet I still couldn't help myself.
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I am 100% at your back for this road safety forum you are having. It's a great way of instilling to the people the value of safety when on the road and thus, preventing any admission essay accidents from happening. In our country, the rate of minor road accidents seems to rise so this forum would be helpful especially if attended by people mainly using the road for transportation.
