The state attorney general's office is investigating allegations that an investigator from the Riverside County District Attorney's Office filed false police reports.

A Riverside County Sheriff's Department spokesman said the department fielded allegations of perjury made against investigator Candette Hammond at the beginning of the summer.

That information was passed to the Palm Springs Police Department on Friday and given to the attorney general's office Tuesday night.

“We will conduct our own independent, thorough investigation,” said Dana Simas, a spokeswoman for the attorney general's office.

Hammond could not be reached for comment.

Thousand Palms resident Luis Bolaños said he took his troubles with Hammond to the sheriff's station during the summer. However, a sheriff's spokesman would not confirm who made the allegations because the sheriff's department is no longer handling the case.

Simas said she couldn't characterize the information her office received other than to say it consisted of perjury allegations.

Bolaños, a former senior investigator in the district attorney's office, said Hammond was assigned to investigate him after he was accused of domestic violence and perjury in 2004.

Bolaños' then-wife had accused him of shoving her and lying in divorce paperwork.

“Ms. Hammond was brand new to the D.A.'s office and they picked her to do the criminal investigation because she was one of the few people who didn't know me,” he said. “It was a good idea. It was a proper decision.”

But Bolaños said he noticed irregularities, and his wife became friends with Hammond during the investigation.

“My ex told me that her best friend in the world is Candette Hammond,” he said.

A judge dismissed the case against him in a preliminary hearing.

In the years that followed, he alleges he discovered Hammond left out pieces of interviews or otherwise falsified reports in his case and others.

A spokesman for the district attorney's office would not say whether Hammond was still employed by the office, referring that question to the attorney general's office.

Simas said she was unsure if Hammond was a current or former employee of the district attorney's office.

Still, Bolaños said he's not pleased with the case being handed to the attorney general.

Bolaños said that while working for the county, he clashed with a prosecutor from the attorney general's office who would later prosecute the original case against him. He said he fears the same prosecutor might be assigned to the case against Hammond.

Bolaños said he's asked for Rep. Mary Bono Mack, R-Palm Springs, to launch a congressional investigation into that prosecutor.

“He spoke with one of the congresswoman's case workers in her district office,” said Jennifer May, a spokeswoman for Bono Mack's office. “At this point, there is not an investigation that's been launched regarding this matter.”