San Francisco prosecutors declined to bring charges against four Baltimore Police officers who have been under investigation in the California city after a woman says she reported a sexual assault that took place there.

The officers, including the commander of the Eastern District, have been suspended with pay and assigned to administrative duties by the Baltimore Police Department since November of last year while the Special Victims Unit of the San Francisco Police Department investigated. The San Francisco District Attorney’s Office told The Banner this week that the evidence in the case was deemed insufficient to file charges.

“Although the San Francisco Police had probable cause to submit an arrest warrant for review in this case, after careful review of all of the evidence gathered, we do not believe we can meet our higher burden of proof,” the office said in a statement, adding that it would reevaluate if additional evidence emerged.

The accuser, a 39-year-old California woman, contacted the Banner saying she was frustrated with the outcome in a case she says dates to September 2024. She also shed light on the circumstances that she said led her to contact police.

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

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

The Baltimore Police Department said an internal investigation remains ongoing and that the officers would remain suspended pending the outcome of that investigation.

The woman, who asked not to be identified because she said she was the victim of a sexual assault, said she met up with the officers through a friend who had been communicating over social media with one of them. They went out for drinks, and she believes she blacked out after taking a shot of liquor.

She said she woke up partially naked the next day alongside one of the officers in a hotel room, bewildered and unable to remember what had happened. All of the officers were packing up to leave, she said.

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“Nobody would say nothing to me. I said, ‘Who had sex with me?’ and no one said anything,” she said, adding she submitted to a rape kit exam three days later at the urging of friends. She said she could not have consented to sex in the condition she was in.

The Banner spoke to a friend of the woman who said she was also present that night and shared a similar account.