Former USAC officer released from jail after 77 days
By Jeong Park
Dec. 23, 2014 11:21 a.m.
A former UCLA undergraduate student government officer was released from county jail Tuesday morning after serving 77 days for sexual battery and other charges.
Omar Arce, who was the Undergraduate Students Association Council Community Service commissioner last year, watched in an orange jumpsuit from a holding cell as Los Angeles Superior Court Commissioner Alan Rubin granted his release.
Rubin cut Arce’s original 180-day jail sentence short, ending it after 77 days because of prison overcrowding in the Men’s Central Jail in downtown Los Angeles.
Police arrested Arce in April after several students told university police Arce had sexually battered them. He was later charged with seven counts of sexual battery, one count of false imprisonment and four counts of battery. Some of the charges were dropped as part of an October plea deal. Arce is no longer enrolled at UCLA.
At the sentencing and probation hearing Tuesday, Rubin warned Arce to follow the probation conditions, saying any violation could cause Arce to go back into custody.
Until October 2015, Arce must stay away from the UCLA campus, not break any laws and abstain from using alcohol and weapons as part of his probation. If Arce violates any of the conditions, he will be automatically sentenced to a year in jail and registered as a sex offender.
Between October 2015 and October 2018, Arce will stay on probation and will face a probation violation hearing and possible jail time if he is found to violate any of the conditions.
Compiled by Jeong Park, Bruin senior staff.
