Behind the Badge
Some things you can’t unsee, as this Garden Grove PD detective can attest
0In April 2005, Officer Steve Heine of the GGPD was on a particularly harrowing and agonizing call. An armed man had barricaded himself in an apartment with a woman. The standoff lasted six hours before Heine, then a police officer with another agency, and other officers gained entry. The suspect’s gun was on the ground. “We found out he had been raping the woman while he was barricaded inside with her,” said Heine, now a detective assigned to the Crimes Against Persons Unit. “I literally got home and cried,” said Heine, a former Marine. “Because I’m 50 feet away from…
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