Former San Diego Mayor Bob Filner, driven from office by sexual harassment allegations, was charged Tuesday with felony false imprisonment and two counts of misdemeanor battery involving three women.
The felony count alleges false imprisonment "by violence, fraud, menace and deceit" but does not elaborate on the circumstances.
The victims were identified only as Jane Does.
Filner, 71, resigned in late August, succumbing to intense pressure after at least 17 women brought lurid sexual harassment allegations against the former 10-term congressman. He had been on the job less than nine months into a four-year term and was San Diego's first Democratic mayor in 20 years....
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The felony count alleges false imprisonment "by violence, fraud, menace and deceit" but does not elaborate on the circumstances.
The victims were identified only as Jane Does.
Filner, 71, resigned in late August, succumbing to intense pressure after at least 17 women brought lurid sexual harassment allegations against the former 10-term congressman. He had been on the job less than nine months into a four-year term and was San Diego's first Democratic mayor in 20 years....
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/ex-san-diego-mayor-charged-3-crimes