SAN DIEGO—A former San Diego County sheriff’s deputy who was previously sentenced for fondling and inappropriately touching more than a dozen women while on duty was booked into custody Monday after an appellate court ruled that he had been released before properly completing his jail sentence.
Richard Fischer, 36, was originally sentenced to 44 months in county jail after pleading guilty to charges that include assault under color of authority for accosting 16 women between 2015 and 2017. Prosecutors say some of the women were people he’d arrested and others were those he met after they had called the police for assistance.
Fischer was released in May of 2020 following five months in custody after being credited with 956 days for time served in pre-trial home detention….