Crime & Safety

Hearing for Narc Officer Charged with Felony Delayed; Police Say No Evidence Pot Taken from Police Storage

The San Leandro Police Department has hired an outside investigator to head its administrative investigation of officer Jason Fredriksson.

A pretrial hearing in the against a San Leandro Police officer was delayed until July 13.  

Harry Stern, the lawyer representing officer Jason Fredriksson of Danville, appeared in court Tuesday on Fredriksson’s behalf. He said the Alameda County District Attorney’s office wanted to push the date back to allow more time for discovery. 

A district attorney has not yet been assigned to Fredriksson’s case, according to Teresa Drenick, spokesperson for the office. 

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Fredriksson — who has worked at the since July 2002 and was one of three detectives in the vice/narcotics unit — was charged on May 20 with illegally transporting and furnishing the sale of marijuana. Fredriksson is accused of giving more than a pound of pot to a woman with whom his lawyer says he was . 

Fredriksson pleaded not guilty to the charge and has been free on bail.

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Stern said he had examined the evidence and said it was “pretty thin.” 

“The evidence is really based on some speculation and cobbling two plus two equals five,” Stern said outside the courtroom at the Hayward Hall of Justice. 

Stern said the police did not find marijuana at Fredriksson's Danville house, although neither the district attorney's office nor the San Leandro police would confirm this. 

Both Stern and San Leandro Police spokesman Sgt. Robert McManus said there is no evidence to suggest the marijuana came from the department’s evidence lockers. 

“We still have not been able to determine the origin of the marijuana,” McManus said. McManus headed the department’s initial investigation into the Fredriksson case, which has since been taken over by the district attorney.  

As is policy with any alleged wrongdoing involving police employees, the San Leandro Police Department currently has an administrative investigation open on Fredriksson. The department has hired an outside investigator to head that case, police said on Tuesday. 

Until the administrative investigation is concluded, Fredriksson is on paid administrative leave, also per department policy. 

Fredriksson’s wife of two years, Sheryll Cofreros Fredriksson, a San Leandro Police dispatcher, was also put on administrative leave shortly after Fredriksson was. McManus declined to say why Cofreros Frediksson was on leave but said it was unrelated to her husband’s case. 

“We still believe he acted independently in supplying the marijuana,” McManus said. 

In a separate case, Fredriksson's father, John Richard Fredriksson, a former San Francisco police officer and inspector for the Alameda County District Attorney's Office, was charged on May 18 with eight counts of lewd and lascivious conduct and oral copulation with a child under 14. , which relate to incidents that allegedly occurred between the late 1980s and early 1990s.


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