San Francisco Police sought to arrest Baltimore Police officers in sexual assault probe

San Francisco Police sought to arrest two Baltimore Police officers for allegedly raping a woman while she said she was unconscious, new records show.

The documents shed new light on a case in which a woman alleged she became intoxicated during a night out with the officers. The next day, she told authorities, she learned she had had sex, which she said she could not have consented to given her intoxication.

It led to the departmental suspension of a district commander and three other officers in Baltimore last fall. The Banner reported last month that prosecutors in San Francisco declined to bring charges, saying the evidence could not be proven beyond a reasonable doubt in court.

The new documents, however, show police believed there was probable cause to support charges against two of the officers, whose DNA was found as part of the investigation.

All the officers’ names are redacted from the documents.

The San Francisco Chronicle first reported on the records, which The Banner also obtained through a public records request.

The alleged victim told The Banner last month she believed the officers should have been held accountable.

“At the end of the day, no officer should let something like that happen,” she said in an interview. “I felt like they took advantage of me. I don’t think that’s fair.”

San Francisco prosecutors produced two lengthy affidavits detailing their investigation of the case against two of the Baltimore officers. The incident occurred in September 2024; there’s an unexplained gap in the investigation of about 10 months.

In November 2025, investigators traveled to Baltimore to interview the officers and collect evidence.

One of the officers agreed to speak with investigators without an attorney, police said. The other was said to be out sick that week and never spoke with them.

The officer who spoke to investigators said he was on a baseball trip with the other officers and that they met up with a group of women and went out drinking, the records show.

According to the San Francisco Police investigation report, his story shifted during his interview. Initially he said he had consensual oral sex with one of the women and escorted her out before going to bed. But later in the interview, he confirmed that later during the incident, he had sex with the alleged victim.

“He said he knew how bad this incident looked but he did not rape anyone,” police wrote. The officer said the woman was drunk but not to the point where she could not say no, and said she pulled him on top of her.

He confirmed the woman’s claim that she asked the next morning who in the group had had sex with her, police wrote.

His DNA was found on the exterior of her underwear, while another officer’s DNA was found on her body and underwear, according to the records.

In declining to charge the case, prosecutors wrote that footage from the hotel showed the alleged victim “walking normally upon arrival and later smiling and conversing” with one of the suspect officers as she left the next morning. They said other witnesses said she initiated kissing one of the officers earlier in the evening.

Although the alleged victim “reported blackout-level intoxication,” prosecutors wrote that “her outward behavior throughout the evening provides a substantial basis for a reasonable-belief defense.”

The officers remain suspended from the Baltimore Police Department pending an internal investigation.

Maj. Jai Etwaroo, the suspended commander of the Eastern District, has declined to comment through an attorney. The other suspended officers — Juan Rivas, Angel Villaronga and Jahmoor Acosta — could not be reached for comment.