Pacific Division cop's alleged rape victim also is a cop

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By Larry Altman on December 8, 2008 5:00 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

The victim in the alleged sexual assault by an LAPD officer at a hotel near LAX is also an LAPD officer, their chief said today.

Pacific Division Officer Eduardo Bermudez, 29, was arrested about 8 a.m. Sunday and held on $100,000 bail. He bailed out late Sunday.

The incident occurred shortly after a sanctioned LAPD Pacific Area holiday party ended. Some went to an unsanctioned after-party at the hotel, where an alleged rape

occurred, police said.

"The alleged victim is also a police officer," police Chief William Bratton told KCAL-TV

today.

Bratton declined to say whether the alleged victim also works in the Pacific Division.

He is scheduled to appear in Los Angeles Superior Court at 8:30 a.m. on Jan. 6.