Restraining order issued against Marysville sergeant

A Yuba County judge has granted an emergency protective order to a Marysville woman who claims she was sexually abused by a Marysville Police Department sergeant, a former officer of the year.

The order signed Wednesday by Judge Debra Givens directs Marc Carroll, 35, to stay at least 100 yards away from the woman and her home.

The Appeal-Democrat is withholding the woman’s name.

According to the woman’s written request for a temporary order, Carroll assaulted her when he came to her home to pick up their 2-year-old daughter for visitation. They lived together until June 2008, she wrote.

“This happens almost every week when we do our visitation exchange,” she wrote.

She complained of bruising and soreness from the alleged assaults.

The woman wrote she thought it was possible Carroll’s behavior would become “unpredictable” if he thought he would lose his job.

Police Chief Wallace Fullerton was not available Friday for comment. Deputy Chief Mike Wilson said Carroll is on paid administrative leave until the court case is resolved. District Attorney Pat McGrath said he could not comment.

The order signed by Givens remains in effect until Wednesday.

Carroll was fired by the Yuba County Sheriff’s Department in 2004 after he jokingly pointed a loaded gun at a fellow deputy in the department’s Detective Unit. The Yuba County

Board of Supervisors and an administrative law judge upheld the firing.

The Police Department selected Carroll officer of the year for 2006, noting he was instrumental in solving a downtown business burglary. He also disarmed a young gang member who had a loaded handgun.

Since joining the department, Carroll has been a field training officer, firearms instructor and gang officer. In 2007, he was one of four officers receiving awards from the California State Automobile Association for recovering stolen vehicles.

Carroll graduated from Wheatland High School in 1992 and has two children in addition to the 2-year-old named in the woman’s complaint.

Two other Marysville officers, Joshua Hendrickson and Amy Alfred, were fired last year after juries found them guilty of conducting an illegal strip search of a drug suspect alongside a city street. Hendrickson was sentenced to 90 days in jail.

Alfred was sentenced to 30 days in jail but the sentence was stayed while she appeals the misdemeanor conviction to a panel of three Yuba County judges. The panel met Thursday but did not rule.

Contact Appeal-Democrat reporter Rob Young at 749-4710 or at roung@appealdemocrat.com.