San Francisco prosecutors on Monday charged a high-ranking member of the sheriff’s Office with two misdemeanors, alleging that Chief of Staff Richard Jue in March fled the scene after crashing into a parked Tesla and then attempted to claim he was the victim.
Jue, 65, was booked into the jail run by his own office Sunday on suspicion of a hit-and-run and filing a false police report, and has since been released on $7,500 bail, according to a statement from the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office.
In announcing the charges on Monday, prosecutors released more details about the alleged circumstances surrounding the March 4 incident, including what appeared to be Jue’s acknowledgment of wrongdoing…