Myres

BACKGROUND

Myres served for nearly 20 years as a deputy in the San Francisco Sheriff’s Office (SFSO). She worked mainly as a jail guard and often volunteered to work overtime for extra pay she spent, in no small part, on designer footwear, clothing, and bags. Myres’s legal troubles began in 2014 when, in knowing violation of SFSO policy, she began having—and concealing—a romantic relationship with Antoine Fowler, an inmate she was charged with guarding. In August 2015, the SFSO told Myres it was investigating her and transferred her to a post outside the jail. When Fowler was released from jail in January 2016, FBI agents surveilled him as he went to Myres’s San Francisco home, where for the next two months he either lived or repeatedly spent the night. (All dates below are in 2016 until otherwise specified.) Fowler’s relationship with Myres was stormy, punctuated by harsh fights and reconciliations, threats by Fowler to expose the relationship and thus imperil Myres’s job, and bitter comments by Myres about looking forward to Fowler suffering violent retribution as a known snitch. On the night of March 23, Myres and Fowler had a final fight; then or in the morning of March 24,…