According to news reports, Huntington Beach Police Officer James Roberts, III was arrested on charges of physically abusing his wife and girlfriend, and dissuading his wife from reporting the assaults in order to keep him from losing his job.  Officer Roberts is charged with felonies for eight counts of false imprisonment by violence or deceit, three counts of criminal threats, two counts of domestic battery with corporal injury, two counts of aggravated assault, one count of dissuading a witness by force or threat, and one count of vandalism.  If convicted on all counts, Officer Roberts faces a maximum sentence of 14 years in state prison.  

Officer Roberts is currently being held on $250,000 bail and is expected to be arraigned Friday, September 4, 2009, at the Central Justice Center in Santa Ana, California.