SDSO investigates deputy for response to 911 call after woman found in ditch

The San Diego County Sheriff’s Department is investigating one of its own deputies for her response to a welfare check on a woman found in a Lemon Grove ditch in July.

Three days later, 43-year-old Irma Perez was rescued but slipped into a coma and died soon after. Now, the Perez family is filing a formal complaint with the Citizens Law Enforcement Review Board (CLERB).

Perez, a mother of three, clung to life as she was pulled from a drainage ditch, barely alive. She had been in the flooded culvert next to railroad tracks along Main Street at Mount Vernon for three days. She came out covered in ants…

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