LOS ANGELES — A former Department of Homeland Security agent was convicted Wednesday of violating the civil rights of two women by trying to block them from reporting to police that he sexually assaulted them.
A federal jury found John J. Olivas of Riverside guilty of misusing his power as a Homeland Security Investigations agent when he assaulted the women in 2012.
Olivas, 48, raped one of the women twice and attempted to rape the other one once, the jury found. Each woman was his girlfriend at the time, and both testified that he beat them.
