MODESTO, CA - The woman at the center of an alleged sex assault by a former Modesto police officer worries the charges he faces will be reduced to misdemeanor counts.

The ex-officer, Lee Freddie Gaines, faces charges of oral copulation by force, being armed with a firearm while committing a sexual offense, sexual battery and assault under color of authority.

The alleged victim, 37-year old Sherry Newton, who acknowledges she was working as a prostitute, said Gaines came to a motel for her services, then handcuffed her and sexually assaulted her.

She said she received a call from the Stanislaus District Attorney's Office on Wednesday informing her the charges were going to be reduced to misdemeanor counts, including one for soliciting sex.

Newton said Gaines never bothered to ask her for sex when he put the handcuffs on her and assaulted her.

CERES, Calif. - A San Jose man suspected of shooting a woman in the leg at her Ceres apartment complex on April 16, was arrested on Thursday.

Ceres Police spokeswoman Carissa Higginbotham said the suspected shooter, Isaac Lanford, 33, of San Jose was arrested in Santa Clara County where he will face local charges prior to be transported to Stanislaus County on the warrant for the Ceres shooting.

Lanford and an unidentified woman were both sought after officers responded to a report of a shooting at the apartment complex on the 1600 block of Evans Rd. Upon arrival, officers found a 33-year-old woman with a gunshot wound to the leg.

The woman told officers she was in an enclosed yard in the complex when someone fired three shots, one of which hit her in the leg, said Detective Derek Perry.

The woman was then transported to a nearby hospital where she was treated for a non-life threatening injury.