A corrections deputy has been arrested on suspicion of extortion and engaging in sexual activity with female inmates assigned to home confinement in Banning.
Christian Heidecker, 32, was booked into the Cois Byrd Detention Center in Murrieta on Friday afternoon, Sept. 15, on $1 million bail after he turned himself in to investigators, according to the Riverside County Sheriff's Department.
On Aug. 31, sheriff's investigators were notified of possible crimes being committed by an employee formerly assigned to the Riverside Alternative Sentencing Program located at the Coordinated Custody Management Unit in Banning.
Investigators say they learned a correctional deputy was extorting female inmates who were assigned to the home confinement unit. Inmates assigned to the program are required
