From Sandy Louey:
A Yuba County Child Protective Services worker has been arrested for allegedly trying to extort money from a Placer County man.
Yolanda Perez Fryson, 41, was arrested on Thursday in Rocklin on suspicion of extortion, accepting a bribe as a public official and possession of stolen property, according to a release from the Placer County Sheriff's Department. She took $10,000 from the victim, according to the release.
Fryson, who had been on administrative leave from her job as a case agent since June, contacted a Placer County man and told him he was suspected of sexual and physical abuse, according to the release.
She told him she could make the charges go away, according to the release.
The man contacted Yuba County officials, who in turn contacted the Sheriff's Department.
A meeting was set up between Fryson and the man Thursday in which she accepted a $10,000 bribe, the release said. Detectives were watching and took her into custody immediately afterward, according to the release.
In 2005, she had reported that her badge was lost or stolen. The badge was found after a search of her home after the arrest, according to the release.
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