Arcadio Rodriguez, a former deputy with the Orange County Sheriff’s Department pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting two female inmates, showing them pornographic videos of himself and directing them to engage in sexual activity, authorities announced Thursday.

The incidents occurred while the now 30-year-old former deputy was assigned to the Theo Lacy Facility in Orange, the Orange County District Attorney’s Office said in a news release.

Rodriguez sexually assaulted them on multiple occasions dating back to May 2022 by touching them over their jail uniforms and showing them pornographic videos of himself while they were in their cells.

He was arrested after an investigation by his own department.

The Stanton resident, who has been on GPS monitoring since January 2025, was charged wit

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